Monthly Archives: September 2020

debate, di bat, an argument or reasonings between persons of differing opinions; dispute; controversy; quarrel; strife; contention. debacle, di bak l, to break up. A sudden breaking up of ice in a river; the complete collapse of an enterprise. Take your choice.  Parts of either of the above definitions would aptly characterize what the nation wasContinue reading “Debate or Debacle”

Our 25th annual faith-promise world missions conference at Thompson Road Baptist Church, October 1-8, 2006, with Pastor Larry Hufhand as our keynote speaker and featuring Ben and Becca Sinclair (Cameroon), Kevin and Mary Brunner (Philippines), Saundra Smith (South Africa), and Jodie Clark (Australia) among others was a blessed week, our conference theme being “Let the nationsContinue reading “David’s Band”

It was recently reported that Dr. Charles Stanley stepped down as senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Atlanta after a 50-year tenure at that post.  It was also clarified on the same news page that the good pastor was not retiring because he could not find retirement in the Bible, but that he was goingContinue reading “When Pastors Retire”

The late Paul Harvey used to close his daily news program with a “For What It’s Worth” story.  On one particular day, he told of a man in New Zealand, a gas thief, who was siphoning gas from a car at 2:00 A.M.  As I recall, Paul Harvey reported that for illumination, since it was in theContinue reading “Your Sin Will Find You Out”

A girl that grew up in a church I pastored wanted from childhood to be a missionary.  That desire never left her through her school years and she attended a local Bible college in order to be prepared to serve God.  At one point, she applied to be a “Mapper,” a missionary apprentice, but the field thatContinue reading “Where Can I Go Then?”

“Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.” (Song of Solomon, 8:7) The wise king had in his mind, no doubt, the love of his life, the beautiful bride known as the Shunamite woman, but his treatise on love causes any thoughtful heart to pause to ponder the love that surpasses allContinue reading “The Unquenchable Fire”

The Apostle Peter echoed King Solomon’s words “…love covereth all sins” (Proverbs 10:12) when he said in his first New Testament epistle “And above all things have fervent charity (love) among yourselves:  for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.” (I Peter 4:8) What a world of difference that would make were it to be theContinue reading “The Believer’s Badge”

It was a rod in Moses’ hand that God told the prophet to cast onto the ground, and an ordinary rod became a serpent.  That same rod was lifted up in Moses’ hand over the Red Sea to call the waters to stand at attention while two million Israelites marched through the sea on dry ground.Continue reading “On Using the Ordinary to do the Extraordinary”

After mankind’s futile attempt at a one-world government and a world-wide rallying post known as the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11), God judged the then known world’s humanistic, godless attempt to create a man-made religion by scattering their peoples to the four-winds and by confounding their languages.  From the three sons of Noah, following the universalContinue reading “Racial Unrest in America?”