Help May Be Closer Than You Think Some days are better than others. Fridays are good, so good, in fact, that a restaurant chain has taken the initials of a common phrase spoken by most of us on Fridays as their name, “TGIF” (Thank God It’s Friday). At the other end of the spectrum is Monday. The day we return to work… Read More
Too Often We Take Our Most Important Gifts For Granted Why do Christians need to be renewed from time to time in their Christian walk? Sometimes it is due to overt sin, but other times it is due to a sin that is not as pronounced or noticeable. That sin is the failure to love God enough. I don’t know about you, but I find… Read More
The Apostle Paul Would Not Recognize Most Of American Christianity A friend of mine who does research for a living told me of a conversation he recently had with a professional pollster. The pollster knew that my friend was a Southern Baptist. He told him that his company had developed a new strategy for checking the margin of error in results which also doubled for… Read More
Fully Indictable Committed Christians Many people have had great influence on my Christian life. One person who has had a tremendous impact on my Christian growth I had never met until fairly recently. The books and writings of Carl George have blessed me for years. In November of 2008 I had the pleasure of meeting him. As we talked… Read More
We All Need Someone Who Believes In Us Part 2 We all need encouragement. Individuals who come to the aid of someone they see to be in moral distress are encouragers. The great encourager in the New Testament is Barnabas, and the two most notable recipients of his encouragement are Paul and John Mark. Paul (formerly Saul) was an outsider to the church. John Mark… Read More