Vacation Bible Schools are not far off, and soon the directors will be scouting for people to help. For as many directors searching, there will be 5 people hiding from said directors. I spent over 5 years as VBS director, and learned quite a bit, not the least being that I am not cut out […]
Rowdy Slater has had it rough. Coming back from the war and not being able to fit back in, then getting caught up in a crime. He realizes he needs to change and is given a choice: pastor a church for a year, or go to jail. Thinking the church would be easy, he instead […]
I finished reading one of the books in my collection last week, and got up to put it back where I keep it. I had to walk by the trash can, and I wondered what it would be like if we threw books away after we read them. The one I read is not easily […]
The spiritual warfare between good and evil is well known among Christians. We don’t all know a lot about it, but we know it is there. We might wonder what all goes on in this fight, but there isn’t any way to know for sure. Chuck Black has written a fictional account of what might […]
Here’s a question that I’ve been thinking about today. We are all familiar with debts, and probably have heard the translation of the Lord’s Prayer that says “forgive us our debts.” We are asking God to forgive us of our sins against Him. That is what we are supposed to do. But, we keep trying […]
God’s grace is something that we can define with a fair amount of accuracy, but we cannot fully understand it. On top of that, we can’t understand why He would grant us the gift of grace. Jan Block helps people to realize how deep of an impact grace has on us in An Unfathomable Gift. […]
It is easy to get down when things go from being pretty good to the point when you start expecting something bad to happen every single day. You can reach a point that you start thinking God has stepped out for a sandwich and left you to take care of yourself. Peter Chin, along with […]
Do you praise God in bad times? How crazy does that sound? Praising God for the good things makes sense, but not for bad things. That seems like an odd thing to believe. However, as the old saying goes, every cloud has a silver lining. Let me share a practical, though somewhat disgusting example. I […]
Conor and Aine have already endured a lot of danger, but they are about to face even more. Add to that despair and separation, and they must learn to fully trust Comdiu. Their quest to fight evil is told in Beneath the Forsaken City by C. E. Laureano. Conor and Aine, along with their friends […]
There is a big discussion about creation versus evolution. I’m not going to debate that here, but I’m going to focus on an aspect that I usually overlook. Why do we want either side to be wrong? This may seem irrelevant, but it goes to motive. I can only speak from one viewpoint, creation. I […]
