“How Rigid Is Your Religion?”
There he sat on the ground next to a man with shabby clothes that reeked of alcohol. My friend Tyson, who himself wore street clothes and had large gauge earrings in his ears, was spending his Saturday in the…
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“Fighting the Good Fight”
I was hunting in Montana in one of our favorite spots that after a while you realize are several people’s favorite spots. As the sun was coming up and I was anticipating elk on every hill when there came a…
“Doubt: Faith Looking for Answers”
Is doubt sinful? I’m very thankful the Bible addresses doubt on several occasions, because it’s an issue all of us—no matter how resilient our faith feels at the moment—will experience. In this week’s passage from Matthew 11, we learn…
The Presence of God
John G. Paton missionary to the New Hebrides Islands in the 19th Century tells of an incident where he felt the presence of the Lord the most in his life. He had landed on the islands to find the people…
“Little Mice Have Big Ears”
Many years ago, in Missouri a preacher had two sons, and those two boys found a little dog in their town and brought it home. They asked their preacher daddy if they could keep it and the preacher liked it…
The Narrow Way
Anne Brontë 1820 –1849 Believe not those who say The upward path is smooth,Lest thou shouldst stumble in the way, And faint before the truth. It is the only road Unto the realms of joy;But he who seeks that blest…
“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…
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…