Sep 12, 2013 | Christian Worldview
Discussions regarding whether the United States should get involved in a battle against Syria have filled the airwaves recently. The politicians and pundits’ comments are all designed to enlist the public to jump on board on their side. Have you heard anyone ask...
Aug 15, 2013 | Christian Worldview, Godly Living
It’s been said that the most quoted—and I’d say misunderstood—scripture is Matthew 7:1: “Judge not, that you be not judged.” The Pope recently has made headlines because of his use of this scripture. People so often want to use this verse to say that we as Christians...
Aug 11, 2013 | Godly Living
We were elated when our son and daughter-in law who’d been trying to conceive for over a year called to say they were expecting our first grandchild.Our joy was doubled when they told us after seeing the ultrasound that they were expecting twins! As soon as I heard, I...
Aug 10, 2013 | Christian Worldview, Godly Living
One of my favorite things to do each spring is to plant flowers. However, around this time of the year I look at what had been a beautiful flowerbed I’d labored to plant in May and now see a flowerbed ravished by deer and overgrown with weeds. And yet, looking over my...
Aug 6, 2013 | Christian Worldview, Godly Living
I remember overhearing a conversation in which someone made a false statement about a friend of mine.I knew my friend very well; I knew the other person didn’t. I said, “That’s not true.I know the truth about her.” Although not knowing the truth about my friend might...
Aug 2, 2013 | Godly Living
Have you ever known someone who has walked for a while with God and then forsaken Him? I’ll never forget the conversation I had with a beloved friend whom I’d led to the Lord, loved like a sister, but whom I’d not talked to in quite a while because she had started...
Jul 26, 2013 | Christian Worldview, Godly Living
Everyone seems to have an opinion regarding the George Zimmerman trial and the recent verdict rendered for his shooting of Trayvon Martin. Many voices are protesting and some are defending the verdict, but there is only one Voice we should seek to hear and to which we...
Jul 15, 2013 | Christian Worldview, Godly Living
I remember as a child the first time that I went to the eye doctor.After getting my eyes examined and putting on my first pair of glasses, I vividly recall that what previously appeared to be merely a blanket of green was transformed into individual blades of grass.It...
Jul 2, 2013 | Christian Worldview, Holidays
I was heartsick when I heard that the house in which we’d raised our four children had been vacated, has sat empty for the past two years, and now is virtually uninhabitable due to substantial mildew and other issues caused from gross neglect. We had been the original...
Jun 25, 2013 | Godly Living
image “God loves you!” You’ve likely heard those words many times in your life.But what do they really mean to you?Do you reallybelieve that God loves you? I didn’t until I was a counselor at a church youth camp and a teenage boy spoke those words directly to me. I’d...