The Better Way of Loving

Do you remember who taught you how to tie your shoes?  Was it your mother or father, a sibling, or a friend?  A man by the name of Bob never learned to tie his shoes.  So, who taught you how to love people?  The sad thing is, in most families, no one ever sat us down...

Heaven: A Place God Calls Good

We read in Revelation 21:4, “He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”  Some of the New Testament’s neatest words are “NO MORE!” ...

Faithful Prayer

A pastor was asked to call on a woman in a psychiatric hospital and pray for her. After his visit, he thought how good it would be for somebody to go there regularly and pray for the residents.  That “somebody” turned out to be him.  He had to be admitted to the...

Oriented Toward Jesus

We read in Acts 4:13, “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished.  And they recognized that they had been with Jesus.”  What a wonderful compliment for people to recognize that we are...

Filled with the Holy Spirit

In the final chapters of all four gospels, the Apostle Peter denies Jesus not once but THREE times!  But in Acts, Peter is like a new man.  After being put in custody in Acts 4 for healing a crippled man, he could have been fearful.  He could have said only what he...

Bringing What We Have

Have you been instructed to do anything recently?  God gives us instructions through His Word.  And, those instructions always require faith.  For example, “Noah, build a boat big enough to hold pairs of every animal in the world.”  “Moses, go down to Egypt and tell...