It amazes me that a computer can run on a battery.  A battery!  Flashlights and children’s toys run on batteries, but a computer?  Laptop computers are designed to run for hours on a battery.  Desktop computers and entire networks of servers will run for several minutes to several hours on battery backups.  However, the battery power does not last forever.  After a…

As adults reminisce about their school days, often there will be talk about what their best, worst, favorite or least favorite subjects were “back in the day.”  It’s interesting the treatment that Math always gets.  With some subjects, like History or English, there is sometimes a “middle of the road” reaction among adults—might not have been the worst or the best subject,…

The mindset of too many Christians (especially those in the teenage and young adult age groups, but not limited to them) is that a short venture or a little dabble into the gratifications of the flesh (a.k.a. sin) is acceptable, as long as you stop yourself from going too far and you know in your heart that you’re always going to come…

There are many things that I memorized in elementary school, middle school, high school and college for exams that I no longer remember.  At one time they were locked in (at least for a few minutes before the test), but now they’re gone.  However, there are other things that stick. Do you know how many inches are in a foot?  Do you…

The Bible is God’s revelation of His will for mankind and to mankind (1 Cor. 2:10-13; 2 Tim. 3:16-17).  It is our only authority today for determining right and wrong and for finding our way to heaven (Col. 3:17; Matt. 28:18; John 12:48; 14:6).  As such, we should measure every religious teaching, every religious practice and every human behavior by that one…

How often have you walked into a public restroom (even ones that are typically clean and well-kept) and been met with towels strewn on the floor and commodes that have not been flushed? Ugh!  Come on! What’s wrong with people that they cannot flush a toilet or get their used paper towel in the waste basket?  Have they no sense of responsibility?…

Immediately upon becoming a Christian, Saul began preaching.  As he “increased all the more in strength,” he increased all the more in “proving that this Jesus is the Christ” (Acts 9:20).  First of all, do you believe that Jesus is the Christ?  It is essential to your salvation that you believe it (Acts 16:31; 18:28; John 20:31; 1 John 5:1).  Now, the…

To read of the vile persecutions that were brought against early “Christians” in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs and to consider the evil hands which administered such torture, it makes one wonder if and how God could really want “all men” (including those tyrants) “to be saved” (1 Tim. 2:4).  To research all of the atrocities that Adolf Hitler enacted upon the innocent…