Gambling is once again in the spotlight as its expansion is being considered in many states. Albert Mohler has written a great article on its dangers and the appropriate Christian response. According to some estimates, as much as one-third of the nation’s money supply now moves through the gambling industry each year. Looking at a …
Fight for us, O God, that we not drift numb and blind and foolish into vain and empty excitements. Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst. Heaven is too great, hell is too horrible, eternity is too long that we should putter around on the porch of …
I heard recently of a pastor who was censured by his deacons because he refused to allow a woman to sing in the church choir who was living in open and unrepentant sin. Odd to consider that a group of leaders who are supposed to use the Bible as their guide opposed the biblical mandate …
Father saves his five children from a burning apartment. Channel 2 Action News reported that the father got two children, including a newborn, out of the apartment, gave them to neighbors, then went back into the burning building to rescue his three other children. This is a pretty good deal from WTSBOOKS. Check out Paul …
About a year ago I received Luke: The Gospel of Amazement from the Biblical Imagination Series by IVP Books and yesterday I received the latest installment in this series, Mark: The Gospel of Passion. Michael Card wrote these and there are books on Matthew and John forthcoming in the next couple of years. Honestly, when …
A few quotes that I hope you will find useful on this Monday. He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find him the rest of the day. You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed He that is down …
Ed Stetzer has written a great article on The Baptist Boogeyman I’ve always been fascinated by the Baptist bogeyman. Bogeymen are not real dangers, but ones we use to scare one another, often distracting us from real danger. There are real challenges in our churches and the convention—theological and otherwise—but bogeymen distract us from the …
I’ve recently been studying the passages in Proverbs that speak about our use of language, our mouth, and our tongue. Last week I was struck by Proverbs 16:23, The heart of the wise makes his speech judicious and adds persuasiveness to his lips. What was so striking? The writer’s emphasis on the heart. In Matthew …
Trying to grow in your faith? Here is some great counsel, I prayed for faith, and though that some day Faith would come down and strike me like lightning. But faith did not seem to come. One day I read in the tenth chapter of Romans, ‘Now faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the …
This first sin, struck at the very heart of the family beginning with the role reversal that led to the struggle for leadership. Rather than leading his wife, Adam stood by and allowed his wife to lead him. The leadership scenario, however, did not result in a closer walk with God, but instead in separation …