Our ZOOM men's group began over eleven months ago. We have developed a close relationship with one another, seen God answer prayers, walked each other through some of the ups and downs of life, offered godly counsel. We have now completed the book...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Right around 300 A.D., would-be Emperor Constantin teamed up with Christians to take over the Empire of Rome. Some say he saw a vision, others aren't quite so sure. But the result of his interactions with the church caused the Christians to come...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
I get it. There are hundreds and thousands of men and women who went to work during the Covid crisis knowing their health or even their life was at stake. Heroes. There are stay-at-home moms who do the mundane work of cleaning and diaper-changing...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Somewhere in the mid 40's of the first century, Paul and Barnabas, two teachers of the church in Syrian Antioch, were sent by that church's leadership, under the direction of God's Spirit, west, to proclaim the Gospel wherever the Lord would lead....[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Let's face it. Too many people are moving around from church to church too often, and usually for the wrong reasons. What are some of those wrong reasons? Here's ten I can think of: 1. There's a person in that church I don't like. We just don't...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
"Come out of her, My people," says the Lord. This is an oft-spoken word from Heaven. We find it first among the prophets. Isaiah, in 52:11, warns Israel to come out of Babylon, for Babylon is about to be destroyed. Babylonia, under Nebuchadnezzar,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Okay old-timers, listen up. I'm speaking to people 95 and above, with a few young whipper-snappers in there too, like me. I'm only 75, but I "get it" when you talk about some of the music in the church. Here's the deal. Growing up, my church,...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Popes have quite often taken their office a bit too seriously. To put the case mildly. Our present Pope (well, not mine, and probably not yours. But the one reigning in Rome at present...) tells us that the 2,000-year history of the wording of the...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
Remember the old song, "tempted and tried we're oft made to wonder, why it should be thus all the day long..." Tempted and tried? Tempted or tried? Which is it? Is temptation the same as testing? Is one a subset of the other? Do we really receive...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
For some, believing that Jesus was a true man is nearly unthinkable. They reason, for Jesus to be fully human, He would have had to inherit our human nature. Our nature is sinful. Therefore Jesus did not inherit a fully human nature. Therefore...[ abbreviated | read entire ]
