“Fear not, for I am with you: be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” (Isaiah 41:10) As a very young boy, my world to me was but a toy. Every single day ...
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Difficult Times As These
Have you ever been at your lowest or even saddened about what’s going on in the world today or just with life period? I ask this because my heart saddens each time I turn on the TV. Our younger generation is losing its way, families are against one another, violence, drugs, you ...
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Nehemiah 8 & 9 The professor was teaching from the book of Nehemiah. I had been reading ahead of him because he was boring me. He was expounding on the facts of who wrote the book; when was it written; why was it written – facts, facts, facts. I was ...
Read More »Our Hope: Forever True
“Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” Hebrews 11:1 (NIV) Have you ever wondered if your faith was what it should be? Or maybe even questioned if faith is really real? I think all believers ponder these kinds of things. ...
Read More »Polluted Wells
Thomas was a Nebraska farmer in the late 1800’s. He and his family enjoyed a good life, though one filled with demanding work. All was well until the day his wife and three children fell ill in quick succession with all the symptoms of Typhoid Fever, an often-deadly disease brought ...
Read More »Can Christians Use Drugs And Alcohol?
Can Christians use drugs and alcohol for fun? Technically the Bible silent on the issue of most drug usage since many of them were not in use in ancient Israel, but the scriptures do speak of consciousness altering drugs in a few places. Specifically it speaks about alcohol consumption, which ...
Read More »Fake News and Facebook Politics
When the people of America elected Donald J. Trump as our President, we entered a new era of politics. Not since the fireside chats of President Franklin Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944 and the first televised debate between Kennedy and Nixon in 1960, has new media had such an impact ...
Read More »The Left-Right Divide In The Church
Today was the annual LGBT pride parade and it got me thinking about how Bible believing Christians should deal with liberals in the church who not only affirm, but encourage the LGBT lifestyle. As a hard line conservative in both my theology and politics, I find it difficult to see ...
Read More »Living With The Holy Spirit Within You
If you are a true believer who has accepted Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, the Holy Spirit resides within you. Let that sink in! The Holy Spirit, third person of the Trinity, has taken up residence within your being. I Corinthians 3:16 asks the question: “Do you not know that ...
Read More »I Feel Pain, But I’m Glad
One of the realizations we all embrace at some point is that pain is going to happen. Sometimes we know the hurt is coming and other times it hits us suddenly. It’s okay though, because pain serves many useful purposes. So I’m going to talk about what pain is, why ...
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