What if God gave you a two-week notice? You have suddenly been notified that you only have two weeks left to complete your earthly mission. What would you do? How would you spend the time? … Would you worry about cutting your lawn? Raking your leaves? Painting your...
"But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves." (James 1:22 NKJV) Last Sunday God talked to me in an amazing way. I had ordered an audio CD about a terrific sermon two weeks before, only to discover that instead of having just 1 sound track, it...
Psalm 24:1 "The earth is the LORD's, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it." I want to make a banner of this verse and super-impose it on a photograph of a hungry child in Appalachia. I want to be reminded that the least in our community, for...
Last Saturday we began examining an interesting prophecy found in Isaiah 32, a warning to complacent women: "You women who are so complacent, rise up and listen to me; you daughters who feel secure, hear what I have to say!" (Isa 32:9) We discovered that the...
"To the Angel of the church in Sardis write..." (Rev. 3:1a) Sardis is the same city as the modern-day city of Sart. It was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia and was a city of great wealth and fame. Sardis was filled with sophisticated paganism. It stood...
"So he answered and said, 'You shall love ... your neighbor as yourself.' But he, wanting to justify himself, said to Jesus, 'And who is my neighbour?'" (Luke 10:27-29, NKJV) Have you made your New Years' resolution for 2013 yet? I have, and I would like to invite...