Go to the grocery store and you will be overwhelmed with the variety and volume of cleaning agents and products.  It is absolutely amazing that entire aisles in a huge supermarket can be lined with every possible cleaning agent for every possible need. There is hand soap (anti-bacterial, Softsoap, Dial, liquid, foaming, etc.), body soap (Dove, Olay, etc.), bath soap (bars, Zest,…

Ask many students of the Bible about that person who said, “Here am I…,” and they will immediately respond that these words were spoken by Isaiah when God asked, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us” (Is. 6:8)? A similar phrase, “Here I am,” is also found in Isaiah, but very few have noticed it. In the closing chapters…

Paul presented a masterful case for the resurrection of Jesus Christ in 1 Corinthians 15.  As his first argument (under inspiration, of course), Paul set forth the simplest evidence, yet the hardest to argue against—Christ was seen by man following His death. “He was seen by Cephas…the twelve… over five hundred at once…James…all the apostles…by [Paul] also” (1 Cor. 15:5-8). Men may…

Do you have a childhood memory of someone trying to annoy you by being a copycat of whatever actions you were doing? Some of those “friends” who did that were not that skilled, but others seemed to have real talent in duplicating your actions. Obviously, none of them reached the level of Marcel Marceau, the famous French mime, who died about two…

In 2004, Josh and Cara told our elders that one reason they got married was because they both had a heart for doing mission work and at some point in the future they wanted to be missionaries.  Little did anyone realize at the time, including Josh and Cara, that the perfect opportunity would begin to present itself just three years later, and…

Those early Christians sometimes struggled in trying to understand why anyone would hear the gospel and not obey it. Perhaps Paul says it best when he expressed their frustrations with the question, “Have they not heard?” Truth and righteousness meant so much to them and to us that the first response to the world’s disobedience is to think the only reason they…

Christians sometimes have great difficulty in understanding those individuals who have not surrendered their lives to the Lord. We so easily forget that there was that period in our lives when we ignored the Lord. Yet when we became Christians we were so thrilled with the treasures we had found we could not understand the indifference of others. How many times have…

Sometimes the world looks at Christians and thinks they are missing out on so much, but the reality is that Christians have made the personal choice to become a Christian and live as a Christian because it is the best life on earth and has more blessings and opportunities afforded than any other life (and there’s no comparison).  Think about these things.…