Are you sure God loves you?

“Sin is the ever-present drive to replace God.” This is what makes it so foolish and wicked.

Sometimes we find ourselves wondering, where will this all end up? I feel this way looking at the evening news, the rise of radical Islam, the sexual anarchy gripping Western Civilization, and the rumored impending collapse of “Christendom.” 

How does a soul, a family, a nation drift away from God?

Back behind the devil’s tireless efforts to trip you up, there lies the ever constant, never failing protecting hand of God.

Even the best of marriages are beset by communication difficulties. Part of our problem is that we leave so much unsaid in our communication…

Psalm 78:5-8 sums up Domestic piety in a nutshell…

Our Christian life will never outgrow our knowledge of God’s love. It is the root from which everything else grows (Eph 3:17).

How can you claim to be walking with God, if your life trajectory is constantly moving away from Him?

God has filled the simple act of eating with a significance far beyond the daily necessities of nutrition. A deep and abiding social instinct draws us to the table together. Though we can snack alone, we prefer to meal together. Food is the universal language of love, and dining alone feels like a deserted city, an empty church, a dark fireplace. Solitary meals may satisfy one hunger, but they inflame all the rest. 

When it comes to educating teenagers, the thing you have to remember is that it’s not so much about filling a bucket, it is about lighting a fire!”

In the book of Revelation, John speaks also of a Trinity from the pit of hell: The Dragon, His image— the Beast from the Sea, and the Beast from the land.

Pain is God's school bell, and one of the many ways He tells His children, I love you!"

The office of elder has deep roots extending back beyond the New Testament Church (1Timothy 3; Titus 1) to the time of Moses and Israel’s wilderness wanderings. God Himself intends these men to help Moses bear the burden of leadership, to be the Spirit’s earthly hands leading God’s people to the Land of Canaan. 

"A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another." (John 13:34)

"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy o those who merely happen to be walking about."

How do you find a point a point of contact with those with whom you seem to believe nothing in common?