He is Our Strength, Speed and Soaring Moment

(We are Sent to Disciple an Insane World as Sheep Among Wolves) Habakkuk 3 I have a pastor friend who recently returned from Ukraine. He spent a few weeks there ministering to the thousands of fellow Christians in that presently ravaged land. His main message request...

An Eternal Decision

It was exactly 73 years ago this week that I did the one thing that transformed me from playing god to having a relationship with the true living God. The main thing that brought me to the church I attended was their sponsoring of a Boy Scout troop that I joined. I...

Life At Its Best

“If there is one thing that our tense age needs, it is a guidance more than human. Today scientific brilliance and spiritual blindness are a frightening union. In its restless cleverness the human brain has brought on us a world situation just about beyond the limits...

The Heart of Being Thankful

In the most expressive language on earth, Greek, there are six different words that express the thoughts of thanksgiving. Our national holiday includes the thoughts of: to thank, give thanks, being thankful, possessing thankfulness, doing thanksgiving or to be a...

Remember Your Promised Resurrection

Three Weeks ago the Christian church celebrated Easter Sunday. Most Christians, I fear, have already forgotten that day, and the great lesson the celebration is supposed to teach—resurrection! We talk much about Christ being raised from the dead almost 2,000...

Choosing Hope or Hopelessness

One of the clearly left-leaning magazines I read and mostly enjoy for their coverage recently had a full page on the unthinkable. It was a discussion of the possibility of Civil War breaking out in our America with questions of how it would work. The heated and close...