I heard of a family who played the “Name-As-Many-Players-As-You-Can Game” while driving on long trips. They would pick a number (like “23”), and then say, “Name as many college or professional athletes as you can think of who ever wore the number 23.” After exhausting that number, they’d go to another one. This was obviously a family who loved to watch sports. What about another…

The red light on your dashboard comes on, telling you that you are almost empty and you need to fill up. How much longer will you go? At some point, you are going to have to stop and take the necessary steps to fill it up. There was a Christian lady in Joppa, who became sick and died (Acts 9:36-37). That was not an unusual…

The phrase “my whole heart” is found eight times in the Bible and each of them is in the book of Psalms. Of the eight occurrences in the book of Psalms, five of them are in Psalm 119. All three times the phrase appears outside Psalm 119, the psalmist is saying, “I will praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart” (9:1; 111:1; 138:1),…

The last four words of Psalm 37:3 (in the New King James Version) are intriguing: “feed on His faithfulness.” Picture a lamb out in the field of Israel—what is that lamb “feeding on” in the field? He has grass and to spare. Picture a child of a king walking into a banquet hall in the palace—what is that child “feeding on” in that huge banquet…

As you think about King David in the Bible—growing up in the household of Jesse, being chosen at a young age to be the next king of Israel, being close friends with the king’s son, becoming king and living in the king’s house—it is unlikely that you have ever pictured him as “poor and needy.” And yet, that is exactly how he describes…

Did anyone ever tell you when you were growing up, “Don’t look at the sun! You’ll go blind!”? It reminds us of Saul of Tarsus seeing “a light from heaven, brighter than the sun” (Acts 26:13), which caused him to be blind for three days (Acts 9:3-9). We grasp the concept of bright lights affecting our ability to see. So, darkness should be safe for…

On the FIRST DAY of Jesus’ life, where were His arms? Strange question, isn’t it? The Bible indicates that His arms were by His side, restrained there by the swaddling cloths (Luke 2:7). Fast forward 33 years. On the LAST DAY of Jesus’ life, where were His arms? They were no longer restrained by His side! They were stretched out as far as they could go, in order…

Dozens of times in the New Testament, the Holy Spirit gives instructions to Christians regarding our relationship with and interaction with “one another” by using that pronoun “one another.” This is a reciprocal pronoun, wherein a person performs an action for, toward or on another person, while receiving that same action performed in return. It is easy as humans to point the finger…