Here’s a very sobering story I once heard. Little Bobby and Suzy met in the playground. Bobby was into playing cards and Suzy was into marbles. But when Bobby saw Suzy’s marbles, he really liked them. And Suzy really liked Bobby’s playing cards. So, they decided to swap. But they decided to swap not only […]

Luke 9:12-Now the day began to wear away, and the twelve came and said to him, “Send the crowd away to go into the surrounding villages and countryside to find lodging and get provisions, for we are here in a desolate place.”  Echoing what PH preached last Sunday regarding “Pandemic fatigue”, where society at large has become […]

There are certain things we must force ourselves to do. If we only did what our heart desired, it would kill us! That is because our heart is evil! The world tells us to follow our heart. We tell our children to do things only if they want to. This would be fine if our heart […]

It is sad to see what state the American schools are in these days. Now that I’m getting a first-hand look at a public school, I have a better idea of where we are as a people and where we are going since these young people are our future. And frankly, it’s not very bright… Many […]

Hebrews 11:15-16–If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, they would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one.A friend of mine asked me to help him navigate embracing what the Lord is convicting him of.  I believe he has a better […]

We had some guests over to our house yesterday, and we had a grand old time reminiscing about the past. They are young moms and dads now, but I have known them since they were in middle schoo! We looked at pictures I have of them when they were that age (I was their youth […]

Hebrews 9:8,14..According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper…14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God. Every family or occupation has “works” we are to do in order to […]

When a young adult member told me that he gets exhausted from work, I told him to start exercising and to eat better. I did NOT suggest him to give himself to more prayer and Bible reading. Prayer and Bible reading are not answers to all our problems (although they will indeed prevent so many […]

I recently saw a footage of an African-American mom beating her teenage son who was skipping school, at a convenient store, with what looked like a whip! The boy fell on the floor once she started swinging and he ran away from her, grabbing onto his low-rising pants! And the question was asked, “Is this […]

Psalm 78:18–They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.My wife and I spent years trying to coax our youngest to try certain foods, before casting them off and resorting to what she’s familiar with.  As much as we would tell her “just try it before you judge it” she would stubbornly pick out the things she […]