One of the downsides of living in an older house is that things break all the time. Our household, for example, has been without a furnace for many years now. Thankfully, the house is equipped with a wood stove, but let me tell you, there’s a lot more work involved ...
Read More »Don’t Swallow Any Camels: Those Pharisees (Part II)
Those Pharisees! Their lives have been described as resembling a gravestone, clean and polished on the outside, while inside they contain ruin and destruction. The Pharisees had more than one problem. Not only did they demand of others what they were unwilling to do themselves, but they went further by ...
Read More »Those Pharisees: “Do as I say, not as I do.”
Most parents soon learn that their children imitate what they do more often than they listen to what they say. Who hasn’t had an embarrassing moment with their child when an inappropriate word or behavior was mimicked? Though we’d like to believe our children listen to what we say in ...
Read More »Our Hope: Jude Speaks Today
“Blessed is he who reads and those who hear the words of this prophecy, and keep those things which are written in it; for the time is near.” Revelation 1:3 (NKJV) God has a plan. The events in Revelation are the conclusion to His plan, the part of it that ...
Read More »How To Personally Apply the Truth
At a recent Christ-centered ladies’ event, one of the ladies seated at my table stated her disdain for a family member who always made sure his conversation with her centered around the Gospel. She viewed this focus on the wisdom of scripture to be judgmental. She explained her wild teenage ...
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