“He who has my commandments and keeps them, is the one who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.” John 14:21 My father in-law passed away last Sunday. He was a fine man. All of us had told him privately to let go of his troubles here and go on to Heaven. There he could see his son, Randy, who died just last month, his grandson, Christopher, that he had missed since […]

“But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own desires and enticed.” (James 1:14) Have you ever noticed what we often do to explain sin in our lives? Many of us tend to blame it on someone else. From the beginning of time, we have looked for an excuse for our sin. When Adam committed his first sin, he blamed it on Eve. “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate”, he told God. […]

“In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, ‘Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!’” (Matthew 3:1-2) The immortal words of John the Baptist, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand”, had a great deal to do with my own salvation. While sitting on the back porch of a friend’s house late one evening in 1991, I heard those words just a few days before I was saved. There was a grove of trees out behind his […]

And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death – even death on a cross!” (Philippians 2:8) Here’s a question for your Sunday School class. Ask your classmates how many of the seven deadly sins they can name. Just in case you don’t know, they are pride (vanity), envy, gluttony, lust, anger, covetousness, and sloth. One of these sins is described as an abomination to God. Do you know which one? I remember it from years ago in an exchange I […]