A big frustration of some preachers is when they forget to make an important point during the sermon.  Such was the case for me this last Sunday.  While I remembered to emphasize it in the second morning worship, it slipped my mind in the first worship service.  Please consider this carefully. The sermon on “Seeing My Brethren the Way God Sees Them,”…

So has this COVID-19 impacted your life so much that it has weakened your faith and negatively impacted your spirituality? Before you get too discouraged, think about the lives of the saints who lived before you and what they had to face. COVID-19 has impacted us for about six months, but what they faced often lasted years, if not a lifetime. If…

Being a Christian in the United States has been convenient in some ways. It was an accepted world view. Not everyone was happy with it, but there was no overt animosity toward Christendom. That convenience has been waning. I have been of the opinion that the benign opinion of the masses toward Christianity wouldn’t last. The church was birthed in persecution and…

There may be some who think that the subject of this article is insensitive or inappropriate.  It is not intended to be at all.  The purpose is to get us to saturate our thinking and our decisions with God’s Word. Think for a moment how frequently and how strongly God spoke about the subject of stealing.  His clarify on this subject is…

Two weeks ago, I wrote the first article on the increasing need for preachers to be developed in the church. At that time, I had no plans to write much about this, but the more I have thought about it, the more I see that these matters need to be discussed. You can have a modern “Hannah or Lois or Eunice,” but…

Last week we discussed the great need there is in the church for developing leaders—elders, deacons and preachers. The truth is that we are not training enough men to preach and many congregations are suffering because of a growing lack of leadership. Our homes no longer are places where these leaders were developed in the past. Young men are not being challenged…

Sometimes it is wondered how a loving God could command that a “rebellious” son be stoned to death under the Law of Moses.  That just doesn’t “fit” in what some people expect to be in the Bible.  Let’s look at it briefly. First, the discussion is found in Deuteronomy 21:18-21.  The focus is on a “stubborn and rebellious son who will not…

Maybe you have heard this before. The idea of “woke” carries with it the idea of being aware of injustice, especially social injustices. This idea isn’t a new one. “For you are all sons of light and sons of day. We are not of night nor of darkness; so then let us not sleep as others do, but let us be alert…