The story by Hans Christian Andersen about the proud, showy emperor tells the tale of pride getting the best of a ruler who cared only about his outward appearance and the parading of his many beautiful clothes. Then, when he is swindled by two pretend weavers who feign the creating ...

Recently my Japanese friend, a missionary in Japan, asked for prayer about her troubled feeling aroused by the movie, Silence, shot in Taiwan by Hollywood director, Martin Scorsese. According to Time Magazine, “Silence is a somber epic about Jesuit priests struggling to keep their faith in violently anti-Christian 17th century Japan”. ...

I wake up far to soon from my sleeping. And now the darkness begins. It came hiding all of my sin Now I’m just waiting for the Sun. I try to breathe before rays are shared by the morning Sun. I’m quite undone as my confessions come in the night. ...

As  we enter  a new era of leadership in America we are also seeing a time of racial, moral, and religious prejudice. Racial tension is running high. Morality has become based upon personal choice rather than absolute truth. Religious persuasions have too often succumbed to political correctness. A new word ...

The two things most familiar to me were the North Atlantic, and the feeling I’d forgotten something. I stared at Maine’s rocky coast as my boat bobbled over swells toward Cumberland Docks. “Dietrich!” Chappy, my crew captain called. “I’ll get the shrimp out to market and have the boat turned ...

I witnessed a rare thing today! It brought tears of joy to my eyes. The whole world witnessed it as well. I wonder! How many in America realize how rare a thing it is to see this celebration of freedom that took place today with our new president’s inauguration? Few ...

Without God we do not know goodness, He is the standard by which we determine whether something is good or evil, He alone is the law-giver and informs our morality. That moral code is found only in the Holy Bible. I know a lot of atheists will object to me saying ...

On Christmas Eve, around 7 p.m., I received a frantic phone call from my mother, she informed me that my grandmother had just died. My grandmother lived her 88 years on this earth apart from God, until about four months ago. My grandmother surrendered her life to Jesus Christ in ...

The other day I was talking with an atheist who brought up a “study” that says Christians have had more abortions, are the largest religious segment of the prison population and have high rates of pornography addiction. He was trying to claim some kind of moral high ground, but I ...

You wouldn’t believe what has happened to America! People are doing all kinds of evil, diabolical, no good things! They are lying, stealing, and causing havoc everywhere. Oh my, can you believe it? The nerve of them to act like neanderthals from the Stone Age! They must all be racist, ...