In January, 1861, a 12-year-old Mexican boy named Felix Ward was abducted from his adopted father’s ranch in Southern Arizona. His father, John Ward, reported the incident at Fort Buchanan, and Lt. Bascom and his men were sent to search the trail. Because the local...
My friend and I sat at the kitchen table and chatted about the past. "He was really hurt," she said, "took him a long time to overcome the rejection." Guilt came over me. I had dated her brother and ended the relationship in an insensitive and abrupt way. I fidgeted...
"May I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. Neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything; what counts is a new creation. Peace and mercy to all who follow this rule,...
"Let us start rebuilding." (Neh 2:18) Do you know of anything that needs to be rebuilt? Nehemiah did. The walls around Jerusalem! And he felt this so keenly about this, that He set out to do something about it! First he spent time in...
My boys just left for church, two hours early, and they were at church until after 10:00 last night. The reason? They were practicing for this morning's worship service. I am delighted. Not by the extra practice necessarily, but simply by the fact that their youth...
"A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pitchers of silver." (Proverbs 5:11) We all have experienced, either personally or observing it in others, how just a word at the right time and place, can change the entire atmosphere of a conversation, or change the...
In the third part of my message on the similarities that exist in the Books of Joshua and Acts, we shall cast the spotlight on some "Negative incidents" to start with. Firstly... RETRIBUTION... Oh yes, there was Achan, who grossly underestimated the omniscience of...