Do you freeze up when someone asks you to lead a Bible study? When you consider studying the Bible on your own, do you feel confused or lost as to where to start? Bible study should not feel scary or impossible. It is, rather, quite possible with the application of a few simple tools. When…
It should be well known that Christians are the most peaceful of all people. We do not wield literal swords and guns to fight for our spiritual cause. Many Christians over the years have submitted meekly and humbly to sometimes horrific deaths because they refused to renounce the name of Jesus. They followed Jesus. As…
By now most have heard how some Parisian artist created a monstrous blasphemy to usher in the 2024 Olympics last month—a version of the Last Supper with an obese lesbian woman in place of the Lord and drag queens feasting instead of the apostles. Many have scoffed at the silly Christians getting offended over nothing…
As a teenager, I recall a strong desire to be free of my parents’ command and overwatch. If only I could do what I wanted when I wanted—how wonderful would that be? As a parent, I now explain to my kids what my parents taught me. They cannot be free until they take full responsibility…
Many are in a tizzy over Governor Jeff Landry’s signing of a new law mandating a poster-size copy of the Ten Commandments hang in every taxpayer-supported classroom. Opponents are melting down around the country, promising legal pushback. From an AP News article: “We’re worried about public school families and students in Louisiana… They come from…
In a rare American interview with 60 Minutes’ Norah O’Donnell on CBS, Pope Francis said many controversial things. At about the 38:44 mark of the video, after being asked by O’Donnell about what gives him hope as he looks at this world, he answered, “People are fundamentally good. We are all fundamentally good. Yes, there…
Christians often get heartburn trying to figure out passages such as Deuteronomy 9.13–10.11. It records the golden calf incident in which the Israelites at the foot of Mt. Horeb (Sinai) decided to make a golden graven image just weeks after God had audibly spoken from that same mountain, “You shall worship no other gods before…
A sweet friend of mine gifted me some daylilies from her garden. The best place I could put them was in my front beds, which had not been weeded for a while, so I rose early in the morning to weed the beds before I placed the new plants. Let me tell you. It had…
They say we must keep the Christian God out of the public schools because it’s not fair to families of other faiths to teach just one God. After all, Christians would hate for Allah to be taught in school, right? They tell us to keep all gods out of the public school system and we…
Often, we believe lies because they have truth intermixed. Also, when culture continually drowns us in their worldview, we tend to slowly start to accept it—especially when it becomes dangerous to take an opposing position. “Diversity is our strength” has become the motto of our day, and Americans believe it because this country has been,…