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

Sunday evening, we came home from church to find our pantry had been ransacked. Spices lay in the floor. Boxes and pouches lay askew on their assigned shelves. Cans lay on their sides, overturned at some point during the process. And from the way Mitch, our shepherd mix, turned and ...

We all have things that we dread doing, and we all have situations in our lives that seem to merit complaint. Recently, I started taking a Bible study by James MacDonald called, Lord Change my Attitude Before it’s Too Late. This week’s lesson is about turning our complaining into thankfulness. How ...

Witnessing to anyone … in any form, can be a challenging task—especially for those persons who fear the task. Nevertheless, since God admonishes us all to go and preach the Gospel, witnessing is just a task that we have to get done. This doesn’t mean we should approach witnessing using ...

The most recent establishment in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Ant Man, proved a couple of points.  First, Ant Man reinforced the fact that Marvel Studios can make a film about any of their “B” list characters and it can end up being a pretty decent film.  Marvel first proved this point with ...

God, using His infinite wisdom and creativity, sometimes orchestrates a unique melding together of two lives.  There are stories of love at first sight, or stories where the courtship strung on and on while one person or the other sorted through a myriad of feelings, and there’s the typical dating ...