Monthly Archives: May 2011

Lest We Forget

Memorial Day 2011 comes as thousands of Americans are deployed around the world in the uniformed services of the United States. Inevitably, honoring the fallen and honoring veterans goes together with honoring those who currently serve in our place with … Continue reading

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The Good Shepherd

As lost sheep need a physical shepherd, so we need a spiritual shepherd. It is an old analogy, an old illustration that most of us understand even in this technological day. Sheep have a very poor sense of physical direction; … Continue reading

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Memorial Day

                                                                 What Mean These Stones?   “When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? Then ye shall let your children know.”(Joshua 4:21-22) The poet George Santayana once said, “Those who cannot learn … Continue reading

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Born Into God’s Family

“Behold, what manner of love the father has bestowed upon us, that we should be called the children of God! Therefore the world does not know us because it did not know Him.”  (1 John 3:1) One of the most motivating … Continue reading

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The Rapture

 The word “Rapture” is not in the Bible (New King James), but its teaching is. The word “Trinity” is not in the Bible but its teaching is. The word “Beatitudes” “ is not found in the Bible either but its teaching … Continue reading

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Loneliness

Listen to this strange verse from the Bible: “I am like a Pelican of the wilderness:  I am like an owl of the desert.  I watch, and am, as a Sparrow alone upon the house top.”  These are words of … Continue reading

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Blind Guides

  “Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!”  (Matthew 23:16)  The 23rd chapter of Matthew contains … Continue reading

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The Dance of Compromise

“Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers…Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeeliever?”                 2 Corinthians 6:14a; 15b Over the years I have had the opportunity to visit with, work with, some honorable men who followed the tenets … Continue reading

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Why Churches become Irrelevaant

  There has never been a society that has been Relative very long and there has never been a church that has been relative very long. Relative churches gradually relativize themselves out of existence. That is exactly what is happening … Continue reading

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The Foolishness of God

THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD   There is a verse in the Bible that says, “The preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness, bug unto us which are saved, it is the Power of God.”  In Paul’s day … Continue reading

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