The sky was dark. Threatening cumulus clouds billowed directly overhead and I knew that it would only be minutes before it began to pour. My heart was no brighter. My most horrid sin, something too abominable to even mention in public, was also threatening to overcome...
James 4: 6 “But he gives us more grace. That is why Scripture says: "God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble."A couple of Sundays ago, I preached from the pulpit about Xiao Min, the Chinese peasant farmer’s daughter who has written 900 hymns for the...
Psalm 106:15 “And He gave them their requests, but sent leanness to their souls.”As Pastor Charles Stanley says, the greater profit of prayer is not that we can gain something, but that we can relate to the One who supplies all our needs.Contemporaries of mine have...
With a houseful of teens, it would totally frighten you to know how much milk I have to buy in a week. Let's just say that sometimes it takes two or three of us to push the cart. When you buy so many gallons at a time, one of them is bound to get missed somewhere...
With that in mind, my wife and I finally summoned the courage to watch Saving Private Ryan, Steven Spielberg's haunting window on the days surrounding the Allied invasion at Omaha Beach. When the film was first released, war veterans broke down in theaters, many...
2 Corinthians 12:7b - Therefore, to keep me from being too elated, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, to keep me from being too elated. (NRSV)I was driving down the Interstate and had an arterial venial malformation -- a leak in my...
John 1:29 - The next day John saw Jesus coming towards him and said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" (NIV)Several months ago, I was involved in a traffic accident while driving along a major roadway in a shopping mall parking lot. My car...