For some reason, mankind’s tendency is to worry about things much more than he should (worrying at all is worrying more than we should).  Yet, something as simple and beautiful as a flower teaches us a much needed and profound lesson.  “So why do you worry about clothing?  Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin;…

When I got married, I was intrigued by how much more Traci knew and liked the love story of Jacob and Rachel than I ever had.  Then it hit me—the stories of the Bible are so diverse that everyone can find stories that may appeal more to them than to others.  There are stories (like Jacob and Rachel) that girls really love. …

So-called “modern-day healers” should be embarrassed.  While many of them claim to be exercising “power given to them by God,” their feeble efforts are anything but of divine origin.  Consider the following statements regarding the effective working of the miracles of Jesus: From the book of Mark only:  “immediately the fever left her” (1:31); “immediately the leprosy left him” (1:42); “Immediately he…

“Stupid” is in the category of “bad words” at our house.  We don’t say it (except when Daddy said it in Soldiers of Christ one night about the children of Israel…oops!), and we don’t like it when others say it.  But, take note, that God called a certain group of people “stupid.” In Proverbs 12:1, God says that “whoever loves discipline loves…

Paul looked at his life with only one goal in mind—bearing fruit.  And he recognized the direct correlation between bearing fruit and labor—fruit will not come without labor; the intensity level, dedication level and patience level of the labor will have an obvious bearing on the fruit level. Consider your labor for the Lord.  Then, consider the fruit that has resulted.  Is…

Can you imagine being one of the prophets of Baal in 1 Kings 18?  You just spent an entire day calling out to Baal to send fire down on your bull.  When that “didn’t work,” you leaped about the altar you made, cried aloud, cut yourself until blood gushed out and continued to call out to Baal all day.  You did this…

How much higher are the heavens than the earth?  Through the research of astronomers, we can know the measurements between celestial bodies and the earth.  While it is hard for us to fathom millions of miles and light years of time, we can begin to understand what God meant when He said, “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So…

The expression “as one man” is found seven times in the New King James Version—all of them in the Old Testament.  Notice how this expression is used:  “the congregation gathered together as one man before the Lord…all the people arose as one man…all the men of Israel were united together as one man” (Judges 20:1, 8, 11); “the people gathered together as…