Likely you have already met many people who are trying to rely on their good works to reach heaven. "I'm sure a lot better than Hitler or Stalin," they boldly declare, assured that they must be doing something right in life after all.Whenever one of these "righteous"...
One day in August 2008, my oldest son told me blankly "Papa, I would like to go on the mission trip to Kenya."I looked at him with a confused face and uttered "Excuse-me?""This has been on my heart for a long time and the church is planning a trip where I can make a...
Romans 12:20 Don't judge and you will not be judgedThe Toyota truck pulled directly in front of us as we drove down the freeway. As I looked at the pile of waste in the bed of the truck, I thought, "What a pile of junk that is!" There were bent and broken bicycles...
"'If you can'? Said Jesus. 'Everything is possible for him who believes.'" - Mark 9:23On December 14, 2005, fire broke out in Tracinda Foxe's kitchen in New York City. The thirty-year old mother began to panic as flames raced through her third story apartment. She...
How awesome a God do we serve! One who reveals Himself in the most mystical ways!June 04: CT Scan showed kidney/gall bladder stones. Ultrasound, October, nothing! Yet a treatment indicated that there was something seriously wrong as it worked "to give me the benefit...
Iqbal Masih spent his childhood shackled to a loom in a dingy carpet factory in Pakistan. At the age of four, when his parents hired him out to repay a $16 loan, he worked twelve- to sixteen-hour days, seven days a week, for less than a dollar a month. He never...
Scripture: Come unto me, all you that are carrying heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28 (NRSV)Our son was a member of his High School football team and a starting member of the baseball team for his junior and senior year. He had a part time job...