Sometimes we read texts, emails, articles, and books in light of how we are feeling and attribute our perspective onto the words we are seeing. When we do this, we can truly misunderstand and   misrepresent the intention of the writer. For example, read this statement, “I love you.” What do you think when you read that? How do you feel?         Usually, when I hear or read someone say tha...  Read More

Of all the holidays on the calendar, New Years perplexes me the most. I say the same thing every year, “I can’t believe it’s already New Years. It seems like last year just began.” Time flies whether we are having fun or not.Young people do not always ponder deeply the passage of time. Sure, they count down the days till Christmas or their birthdays or the end of school, but they do not always see...  Read More

If you were asked to explain Christmas to someone who had never heard of it what would you say? What would you tell someone who had never heard about Christmas? Would you start with family, food, and fun? Or would you start with faith? For so many, they would explain Christmas as a holiday where family is emphasized. I love my family. I highly value family. God has created the family as a bedrock ...  Read More

What should God’s faithful people do in a time of moral, spiritual, and societal degradation and collapse? As followers of Christ and believers in the Bible we must give serious consideration to this question.            We can learn so much from the greater testament. God was finished with that particular generation of Jews in Jeremiah 7 because of their idolatry and pluralism. They thought that ...  Read More

“Don’t bury the lead!” I wish every internet “journalist” today would abide by this axiom. Anytime I succumb to the clickbait headline I immediately skip to at least the third paragraph of the article, because I know the first two will contain mindless dribble and leftist propaganda. Usually, by paragraph three or four, I can find the meat of the article. This irritating style of writing seems to ...  Read More

Twenty years ago, I read a book titled Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life, written by Alister McGrath, a Christian Apologist. Richard Dawkins was a famous atheist apologist, one of the so-called “Four Horsemen” of the new atheism. Dawkins is still alive physically, but perhaps not as prominent as he once was in the world of atheism. Some of Dawkins’ luster may have been lost when ...  Read More

The dog days of summer have come upon us! Originally, the dog days of summer stem from Hellenistic astrology and the heliacal rising of Sirius, the dog star. The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that Sirius’s dawn rising in the summer contributed to the extreme heat of the season. The name “Sirius” even stems from the Ancient Greek seírios, meaning “scorching.” The Egyptians used Sirius’s dawn r...  Read More

July has always been one of my favorite months for several reasons. One, it is my birthday month. This year I will celebrate a big one. I cannot believe I have become this old. The alternative, however, seems a bit premature at the moment. Two, my dad always bought fireworks to celebrate the Fourth. Usually, after shooting off all the fireworks, we would break out the shotguns. I’m not certain tha...  Read More

Of all the realities in existence, two related ones are the most sobering to me: the brevity of life and the reality of death. We are not getting out of here alive! Throughout the centuries, death has been called the King of Terrors for good reason. The statistics on death are overwhelming—every one out of one person dies. Furthermore, the reality of the passing of time becomes more apparent the l...  Read More

I lived in a time when children went to school for nine months and had three months off during the summer. We usually got out of school after Memorial Day and returned to school sometime around Labor Day. Three full months away from school was a nice break. However, returning to school after a full summer break was a challenge. Nevertheless, this schedule made the month of May special because I as...  Read More

Growing up, I always heard the saying, “April showers bring may flowers.” As we enter the second quarter of 2024 already, let’s take a minute and think about what God said about flowers in His Word. For the most part, God used flowers in one of two ways. One, God used the beauty of flowers to assure His children that He would take care of us. In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said in Matthew 6:28-...  Read More

God has always wanted His people to worship Him according to His Word and His Way. When God gave Moses instructions on the construction of the Tabernacle, God made sure that the people tasked with building the Tabernacle were also empowered to be faithful to His instructions. Exodus 35:30-35, 30 Moses then said to the Israelites: “Look, the Lord has ap-pointed by name Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hu...  Read More