Recently, a person in my Bible study group admitted he was mad at God and confessed to telling Him so.  As I pondered his story and prayed for him, I reduced the scenario to a human to human level.  I imagined one person mad at another and how, at some ...

It was the second week of horse training.  Quietly the trainer explained, “Today we will teach him that where you look, he must move.”  I had never heard of such a thing and watched with interested amusement.  Within five minutes, amusement turned to awe.  By then the diminutive trainer had ...

I was driving around with some teenagers from the local high school when they started talking about Ouija boards. When asking them why they were discussing that subject I was told there was a movie coming out. The movie, “Ouija” is opening in theaters October 24, 2014. It is summed ...

Have you ever considered that the first specific act of God recorded in Scripture was to send light into darkness? The Bible records it this way in Genesis 1:1-3: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on ...

Solomon knew what he was talking about in the book of Ecclesiastes. He was a man who had it all: wisdom, adoring women, an earthly kingdom, and 25 tons of gold received yearly! What more could there be? Solomon knew the answer to that–it was wisdom to live right. God ...

“In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. ” -John Bunyan If your life is anything like mine everyday seems more busy than ever before. It appears to drag us into multiple directions at once and it can be difficult to think ...

Houston Mayor Annise D Parker has placed herself smack in the middle of a firestorm. Evidently, she needs to read her Constitution again. What in the world was she thinking? What are we thinking allowing elected officials to serve subpoenas to pastors, requesting multiple forms of communications including sermons and ...

‘Those who know Your name will trust in You, for You, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek You.’  Psalm 9:10 (NIV) Let’s agree right away that life is hard.  There is no splitting hairs about it, no glossing it over, no making it sound better than that.  But even though ...

At one level, the Christian walk appears difficult. But at another, it’s impossible, especially if relying on your own strength. Too often, little things take us down and we fall short of desirable goals. In my experience, sooner or later, good works fail. One might wonder how our ancestors endured ...

If you had been here…It’s the cry of believers everywhere – a cry that echoes through time since the beginning.  It echoes down the shiny tiled corridors of the hospital, around the empty chair at the dinner table and amongst beautiful bouquets around the grave site.  It never ceases – ...