"Can the Ethiopian change his skin or the leopard its spots? Neither can you do good who are accustomed to doing evil." (Jer 13:23 NIV)There once was a snake. He was making a trek to the holy land when he came across an insurmountable problem: He couldn't cross the...
The winter of 2007 was a mild one; or so it seemed. By mid-February, I hadn't yet had the need to use my snow blower even once. But that's when ol' man winter finally began to show himself and it finally started to snow.It wasn't much at first, and 12 hours later our...
Jeremiah 3:22 "Return, faithless people; I will cure you of backsliding." "Yes, we will come to you, for you are the LORD our God.” (NIV)Recently, our Celtic band Glenfinnan played at a Scots-Irish festival in Dandridge, Tennessee. We performed from the front porch of...
Exodus 14:12 "Didn't we say to you in Egypt, 'Leave us alone; let us serve the Egyptians'? It would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the desert!" (NIV)When I first became a Christian, I found it tough to try to live up to Christ’s...
Bob Harris, former weatherman for the New York television station, WPIX-TV, and the nationally syndicated independent Network news, had to weather a public storm of his own making in 1979. Though he had studied math, physics and geology at three colleges, he left...
It was November and I was in the final process of moving back to my home in North Carolina. Only a few months before my wife of twenty-one years had died in a tragic single vehicle accident. My three minor children ages 10 to 16 were with her on that fateful morning...
John 15:4-5 - Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart...