As we read about Elizabeth and Mary in Luke 1, we discover that they were quite a pair. Elizabeth was not a young woman! After years and years of praying for a child, after becoming used to not having a child, and after getting to the age where giving birth to a...
What is your deepest need during this Christmas season? The good news is the promise that God is with us at our own deepest point of NEED. Not only is God at the center of all that is significant, God (Emmanuel) is with you and me at our deepest point of need. What...
Richard Capen tells the story of his good friend, Navy Captain Harry Jenkins, who spent seven years in captivity in North Vietnam. He was in solitary confinement for fifty months, and was tortured beyond belief. Yet he always found something to laugh about and, as...
After God had called Abram to leave his country and his father’s house, we read in Genesis 12:8, “From there he moved to the hill country on the east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east. And there he built an altar to...
There is an old story told of an ancient Christian monastery that had fallen on hard times. Over the years, fewer and fewer men had come to enter the life of a monk, until now, only a handful of very old men inhabited the monastery, and it was in danger shortly of...
A recent study revealed that an average 70-year-old man has spent 24 years sleeping, 14 years working, 8 years in amusements, 6 years at the dinner table, 5 years in transportation, 4 years in conversation, 3 years in education, and 2 years in studying and reading....
Jesus declared in Matthew 5:16: “Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.” The ones who have God’s gospel shining on them are going to reflect that light for others to see. God desires...
A question is being asked of many Christians today . . . “Are you a tolerant Christian?” But the danger in that question is that tolerant in our world today doesn’t mean just loving the person but hating the sin; it means do you “APPROVE” of a particular lifestyle,...
Never underestimate God’s power to transform sinners! In the Gospel of Luke, we meet Levi, a tax collector. You would never expect this greedy, hardhearted tax collector to become one of Jesus’s closest followers and eventually write the first Gospel? Imagine what...
What do you think is the greatest problem facing people today? I believe the greatest problem facing people is TEMPTATION!! It isn’t famine or wars or natural disasters (like Hurricane Ian hitting Florida now – as bad as that is!!). It isn’t our economic...