Struggling youth

A Strange Rule?

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: ‘The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat!’ -2 Thessalonians 3:10 Would Paul and the Bible have been acceptable to modern day politically-correct pundits? After all, the welfare society has ruled out the necessity of work »

Watching at Midnight

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Therefore, keep watch, because you do not know the day or the hour. -Matthew 25:13 What a master storyteller Jesus was and is! His parables were well-crafted to both intrigue His hearers, because they were drawn from pictures common to first century Jewish life, as well as always elucidating a »

Living Well, Dying Well

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Enoch walked faithfully with God, and then he was no more, because God took him away. -Genesis 5:24 It is said there are only two certain things in life: death and taxes. But for at least two who lived previously, these two never knew death. Enoch and Elijah never passed »

Your World- and Life-View

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. -Isaiah 5:20 There are a multitude of choices in life. Especially in our prosperous Western Civilization, life offers a cornucopia, a veritable »

Satan Made Me Do It

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Be sober-minded and alert. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion seeking someone to devour. -1 Peter 5:8 A perfectly reasonable excuse? You think? Of course, making this excuse assumes there is such a thing as Satan, or a master devil. Many self-described Christians do not believe »

Summer Lesson

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“He told them this parable: ‘Look at the fig tree and all the trees. When they sprout leaves, you can see for yourselves and know summer is near. Even so, when you see these things [signs] happening you know that the kingdom of God is near.’ -Luke 21:29-31 “Summertime and »

Family Gone?

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“God sets the solitary [the lonely] in families, he leads out the prisoners [of loneliness] with singing, but the rebellious live in a sun-scorched [lonely] land. -Psalm 68:6 Current statistics claim the most common household in America is a single person, not a family. Can this really be? Even if »

Toe-Tapping Instinct

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! -Psalm 150:6 Music is in the mind and heart of humans. God created music and He imbued it in the heart of the beings He made in His own image. This image includes the instinct to know, love, and make music. In »

Celebrating a Far Better Place

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ. -Philippians 3:20 The Apostle Paul was a rightful citizen of a powerful earthly nation, a vast empire; namely, Rome. He called on this fact when he was being persecuted as though he »

Last Breath

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Jesus answered him, ‘Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.’ -Luke 23:43 A few years ago I asked a Navy-Vet and retired ship captain friend who was both older than me and quite ill at that point, “What do you think happens when you take your »

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