Happy New Year! I’m finishing up the Book of Revelation and looking forward to starting a new book in the new year. The Bible starts with God and ends with God. The world does also. It starts with God and ends with God. And in the end, we the church will be so beautifully adorned, and […]

What if this is the beginning of the end, and things may get worse from here on out? If this is indeed the beginning of the end, then we can be sure that it will get worse – far worse than it is now. Before the end of the world as we know it, the Book […]

Merry Christmas! Christ has come, and He will come again! As we were doing our family devotional this week, a question was posed, “why did Jesus come as a baby and not as an adult?” His main purpose in coming was to die for our sins. But if so, He could’ve come as an adult. Adults […]

A long time ago, when I was a young youth pastor, I remember going to a meeting with our education pastor. We met up with a reporter and another pastor from a neighboring church. Now, this pastor from a largish church didn’t seem to be too thrilled to be at this meeting. And my education […]

I’ve learned much through running a marathon. One of the reasons why I wanted to run it was to learn about life. I’ve read people say that you learn about life as you are training for and running the marathon, and they were right. One lesson I learned is to keep going when I want to […]

What do you hate? What we hate says as much about us as what we love. Are there things or things in people that you cannot stand? Are there things in YOU that you cannot stand? If you are godly, you SHOULD hate some things. “Have mercy on those who doubt; save others by snatching them from […]

Have you ever said or had this said to you?: “Let’s remain friends…” That’s usually what a person says to another person as he/she is breaking up with the other. The special relationship has come to an end, and one says so when he/she wants to move on.  Can we say that to God? Can we […]

There is much to love in this world. That is why many people in history have sought to live forever. Think of all the preposterous things people do or have done in order to live forever! I was reminded of this as I was reading Harry Potter (because my daughter is a big fan), and found […]

How I wish there was an immediate consequence to our actions! That would be good for us!  One of the most frightful facts of life is that the consequence of our action does not come to us immediately. Because there is no immediate consequence to our action, we think it’s no big deal, and therefore […]

In the early days of our church, there was a young man who attended our church who had the “defeatist” mentality. And I see this same mentality in so many of the young men, especially these days, and it is alarming. What is that mentality? It’s the mindset that thinks, “Because I have a such and […]