Year after year, VBS after VBS, there is one song that gets more requests and more hype over any other. Of course, it is the monstrously popular “Hippo Song.” Its silly lyrics combined with blazing fast movements make it a spectacular event in and of itself. But, what value does it bring? Many of the songs we sing have a clear spiritual…

“Oh come, let us sing to the Lord! Let us shout joyfully…Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving…For the Lord is the great God…Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker” (Psa. 95:1-6). These words describe the heart of the man whose heart was like the heart of God. David fully understood worship…

“That’s not for me.  I’m not going to that!”  So often that is the mindset that some have toward various gatherings and activities of the church.  It’s almost as if some have decided that nothing other than Sunday morning worship is for them and nothing will convince them otherwise.  Would you be willing to consider a few things for just a few…

In the world, there are many religions. Each one of them claims to hold the solution to sin. Some ask their followers to reject sin. Some ask them to be unconcerned about sin. There are even some that ask them to embrace or even celebrate sin. The Bible, however, makes it clear that sin is something of deadly seriousness. Sin separates us…

One simple way to view life is to think of how it is a journey up a mountain trail. There are many times when on this journey there are forks in the path ahead of us, and we must choose which one to take, knowing that one of them leads to the place you have heard so much about. You want to…

When Elisha told Naaman, “Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and your flesh shall be restored to you, and you shall be clean” (2 Kgs. 5:10), did Elisha really have to go and “wash in the Jordan seven times” in order for his flesh to be restored?  Isn’t that a silly question?  The instructions are simple: “go and wash.”  The…

As Paul comes to the end his first letter to the saints in Corinth he admonishes them, “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord” (15:58). The first word in this verse calls attention to all that had just been said. He had devoted…

You’ve heard of people trying to “make a deal” with God, haven’t you?  Maybe you have been one of those people.  “Lord, if you will ______, then I will _____.”  Those “deals” are usually designed for the good of the recipient, aren’t they?  Would you ever try to “make a deal” with God for the good of someone else?  In Psalm 71,…