Some Christians believe that Jesus emphasizes what to do and not do more than love. That is, He expects only regular church attendance,...

We need a complete spiritual overhaul to serve others because we love them as we love ourselves. We need a clean, morally pure heart ...

We have stolen God’s honor and glory. “ Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever....

He was old-fashioned. His neighbors used tractors and other modern machinery to squeeze income from their land. He refused.   He still...

Entitled people think they deserve all the material things their parents spent a lifetime accumulating. They feel put upon when others...

My mother’s first cousin Ruth and Arthur, her brother, were genetically more similar to her than most first cousins. They were the...

Prejudice is pride putting others in their imagined inferior place . An event in Acts 11 ran counter to centuries of Jewish prejudice...

Pride is like an intertwined bundle of oak catkins. It punches way above its weight. Its negative impact is far-reaching.   It clogs our...

When I was a graduate student, I told a fellow student I was a teetotaler. Word got around. The managers of my housing unit had a...

About 50 years ago, I had a life goals conversation with another person.   It was short because we did not have any. We were not...

Nehemiah was eight hundred miles from the problems in Jerusalem. He had obligations to King Artaxerxes, who did not care about the...

I could not see anything for three days. A racquetball hit my left eye in 1972 and caused internal bleeding and temporary blindness. The...

Among Christians, God’s word is highly honored, little read, less understood, and rarely applied. You must hear that word with open ears....

I saw a sign in a restaurant. “This is a non-profit organization. We did not plan it that way, but that is how it worked out!”   That is...

You cannot row a boat in a straight line by pulling on only one oar. It takes two. Faith and works are the two oars of the Christian...

Scripture does not speak about many issues on which equally sincere Christians disagree. How can we disagree on “gray areas” where the...

Poking fun at the government keeps late-night TV hosts in business. In Russia, such behavior would significantly decrease life...

We cannot fully comprehend God’s path through history. It is no wonder that skilled Bible teachers disagree on the meaning of “and in...

My mother died when I was seven. I felt abandoned. Does God call us His  people one day and abandon us the next?   Paul insists he is...

We cannot lift a large sofa by ourselves. Some items are too big to lift without help. How often do we fail because we do not ask for...