The Founding Fathers’ vision was not that everyone should be free to do whatever was right in their own eyes. Their vision was that everyone should be free to choose to do whatever God Almighty wanted them to do. Please Continue Reading →
The book of James alerts us to the problems of being double-minded. A double-minded person is restless and confused in his thoughts, his actions and his behavior. Doesn’t that sound like something God’s enemies would like to inflict on all Continue Reading →
It is hard for us to understand how on earth it could have made sense to Adam and Eve to disobey God’s clear instructions and exchange life in Paradise for death and destruction. Once again the Bible comes to our Continue Reading →
The secret of radiant living is to fix our attention on the Lord and His doings. The Lord and His doings — that’s the subject of this hundred-year-old classic hymn. It is a good one to know and sing as Continue Reading →
You might not have been thinking about totalitarianism, so let me help you change that. I’m told Jordan Peterson (Canadian psychologist, author and speaker) said that the antithesis of totalitarianism is — wait for it — play. If what he Continue Reading →
“There’s A New Day Dawning” was written about a hundred years ago. Back then, what new day was our song writer thinking of? Please give this bright song a sing-along listen, then we’ll talk about three possible candidates for this Continue Reading →
A song urging us to “keep on the firing line” might seem out of place at church, especially for the many of us who have grown up in times of peace and have not needed to learn how to suit Continue Reading →
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? (Psalm 27:1). Oh, where would we be without the Psalms?!? Please give “Unafraid” a Continue Reading →
We can get so excited about the life that is to come that we might forget to live fully in the life that is here now. Enablements the Lord bundled to include with the new birth are designed to be Continue Reading →
Many songs celebrate not only the name Jesus but also other names Jesus has. For example, a fine old hymn called “Blessed Be The Name” sings of Jesus as “♫♪ Redeemer, savior, friend of man ♫♪”. If Jesus were only Continue Reading →