In "When Temptation Looms, Part 7", we discovered that in addition to the defensive weapons God has given us, He has also provided us with two offensive ones. We learned that the first was the "Sword of the Spirit", and today we will see that the second one is the...
It was a beautiful, sunny morning in June, just the perfect morning for me to enjoy my first walk of the season with my dog, Salida. As we passed by the farmhouse on the corner, it didn't take me long to remember the vicious, barking dog that lived there, forever...
It had already been a week since I landed on the moon, and it was exactly 48 years after the original moon landing of Apollo 11 on July 20, 1969.I had been sent here on a mission to collect rocks from one of its biggest craters, the South Pole-Aitken Basin, but unlike...
There is a story I once heard about a certain pastor in a country where Christians are persecuted, who was arrested and thrown into prison. Two of his newest converts to Christianity, both young women, were arrested at the same time, and they found themselves...
Grandpa chewed tobacco as he had for many years. Guilt weighed heavily on him because he couldn't seem to give it up.Now and again he would make it a couple of days, but his will power gave out and it was back to the plug of tobacco. None of the other deacon's at his...
I was standing at the foot of my mother’s bed along with my father and my two sisters, watching…. Watching….. watching the pulse in my mother’s neck; watching her life slowly ebb; watching my life end as I knew it. I watched till her heart beat, the pulse in her neck...
As I was getting ready to do my daily email, I noticed some kind of an adhesive substance on the side of my hand. "Where did that come from?" I wondered as I hurried into the bathroom to scrub it off.I had only been back on the computer for a few seconds however,...