The interest of most teenagers today lies in music, fashion, and technological gadgets; not so much in helping others. The less than pleasant disposition and overall supercilious attitude of most young adults doesn’t help their reputation either. As a result, most people view the teen years as a time of ...

What does it really mean to wait for Jesus? I mean wait for Jesus! There is divine enablement and power in waiting. Remember Jesus waited in hell for three days and God delivered Him. Elijah waited for God in prayer and we know the result: “Seven times Elijah told him ...

Terms such as nail fungus, athlete’s foot, Candida, and yeast infections are familiar for most of us. According to the CDC, however, there are approximately 1.5 million species of fungi on Earth. Pathogenic (disease-causing) fungi number around 300. Some of the more common ones are listed here. Fungi produce a ...

“He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.”  Proverbs 13:20 (NIV) A friend from my school days posted something on Facebook last night about how life is too short to put up with fools.  It was pointed to the fact that we often ...

A friend of mine recently told me that she doesn’t like this website because it is controversial. What immediately came to mind is that there are too many Christians sitting in churches expecting everyone else to think and act like they do. I did not ask her whether she was ...

Don’t get me wrong–I love kids, but those ages 10 to 13 plagued by hormonal surges, a sordid home life, and a propensity to tune-out authority figures, light a fire under my prayer life.  So it was, when I walked into an inner-city school to substitute for the P.E. teacher, ...

“Point your kids in the right direction—when they’re old they won’t be lost.” Proverbs 22:6 No one was ready for what  occurred on January 12, 1888, across the northwest plains of America. In the days leading up to that fateful January day, the weather had been mild and unusually warm ...

In my new book One of the Few, I combine my passion for apologetics with the power of story. But before I was a Christian, you would have been correct to tell me, as the evil Emporer in Star Wars might have: “You don’t know the power of the dark side.” ...

Dear friend, I see you. I see your smile. I also see through your façade. I am very adept at playing the game all too well. The one you love is battling the dark, and you are running out of light. Your heart is begging for a flicker, a spark, ...

What is it that drives some people over the edge? What is it that will motivate them to be defiant, to do the unreasonable? To do, what is to them, the unthinkable? Is it exclusively rebellion and sin that can cause an otherwise reasonable, law-abiding citizen to carry out outrageous ...