“Holy and Holistic”
Jesus is generous and kind, and He doesn’t want us to be foolish in our interactions with other people. He has redeemed us from the shackles of sin and its isolating curse and placed us in a community of…
Eric Metzger
“Would It Help?”
Sometimes a simple question can prove profoundly helpful. I remember watching the movie Bridge of Spies several years ago and listening to this dialogue between Brooklyn lawyer James Donovan and his defendant Rudolf Abel after what Donovan perceived as…
“Eternity’s Encouragement”
I penned this poem some years ago when I was overseas and struggling with discouragement as I realized how much time I was missing with my dear friends back in the States. Time and again Jesus’ eternal perspective has given…
Review Your Vows
HUSBAND I, ___________, take thee, ___________, to be my wedded wife, to have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death…
The Four “E’s” Proving the Resurrection of Jesus: by Lee Strobel
EXECUTION: We have no record of anyone surviving a full Roman crucifixion. And not only that we have five ancient historical sources outside the New Testament that confirm and corroborate the execution of Jesus on the cross. EARLY ACCOUNTS: Many…
“GENTLE, RIDING ON A DONKEY”
Palm Sunday is celebrated by Christians all over the world as the day that Jesus fulfilled prophecy of Zechariah 9:9 “Behold your King is coming to you; He is just and endowed with salvation, humble, and mounted on a donkey,…
Lust, the Gift Thief!
“Lust is not the result of an overactive sex drive; it is not a biological phenomenon or the by-product of our glands. If it were, then it could be satisfied with a sexual experience, like a glass of water quenches…
Anger or Glorifying the Lord?
Bruce Goodrich was being initiated into the cadet corps at Texas A & M University. One night, Bruce was forced to run until he dropped — but he never got up. Bruce Goodrich died before he even entered college. A…
REMAINING FAITHFUL TO THE WORD OF GOD
In Duncanville Texas the United Methodist church ordained it first openly gay paster in 2023. It was the first time a southern state ordained a homosexual person in the United Methodist church in history. The first American church to ordain…
“Great Is Your Reward in Heaven”
“Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on My account. Rejoice and be glad, for great is your reward in Heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets…