The Bottom Line, Ministries Christian News, Articles, & Poetry

The young couple’s story began on a chilly Halloween night in 1930 while attending  a masquerade ball. The young man had left high school four years earlier to take a job with the local electric company, helping  his father make ends meet for a family with nine children. The young ...

The trials of life will have you feeling Knocked Out. I sit reflecting on life, not only about myself but what is going on in this world today. Senseless killings, unemployment, drugs, death, etc, but in a deep sense we all are born dying. Just that thought leads me to a ...

John 1:14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. I find it fascinating that John would use the word flesh instead of “man” to speak about the incarnation ...

I wrote this article while visiting my 96-year old mom at a retirement center in Dallas, Texas. She has the opportunity to live with other seniors, many of whom, like her, are widows. This is so important. Loneliness is not an option! Companionship and socialization is a necessity for one’s ...

— Psalm 121:1-3 A Song of Ascents The Song of Ascents, also called the Song of Degrees, are made up of 15 Psalms (120-134). They are also called Gradual Songs, or steps, stairs, high, hills, stories, go, goeth, going, mountain, chiefest, come, and before. All these different words used in ...