“Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works.” Revelation 2:4-5Brad was a twelve-year-old boy attending a summer camp where I was speaking. He had glasses as thick as coke bottles and a very quiet disposition. One evening […]
“Have mercy on those who doubt; save others by snatching them from the fire; have mercy on others but with fear.” Jude 1:22-23 Leonard was a gentleman my dad employed for about sixteen years. I really didn’t understand why dad kept Leonard around. He weighed about ninety pounds, couldn’t help dad do the manual labor really […]
…let it forever be settled in our mind that God has loved us with an everlasting love.
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” – Henry David ThoreauI’ve gone through a gamut of emotions while following the political activities of the last months, and even years. I suppose our national problem was never clearer than during the State of the Union address a couple weeks ago. Regardless of your […]
I made a judgment and I was wrong. Christians can make the same mistake.
By Tobin Perry TYLER, Texas (BP) – Hundreds of homes throughout East Texas got an unusual yellow envelope in their mailboxes, thanks to one Southern Baptist church in Texas. It wasn’t a church invite or junk mail. Instead, it could be worth tens of thousands of dollars for the recipients. Facilitated by more than $45,000 […]
Feelings will not sustain a marriage when facts overrule the emotions.
“…it has been a joy for me to see how Christ can and does transform nasty people…”