Category Archives: April 2021

Newspapers across the nation carried a story of an eleven-year-old diabetic boy whose parents discarded his life-sustaining insulin that he had been taking for five years claiming that he had been healed after a so-called “faith healer” had laid hands on him in an attempt to “exorcise demons” and in so doing cure the ladContinue reading “Faith Healing”

Perhaps you have read as have I that the world’s great civilizations have had life spans of about 200 years, progressing in a sequence of (1) moving from bondage to spiritual faith; (2) from spiritual faith to courage; (3) from courage to liberty; (4) from liberty to abundance; (5) from abundance to selfishness; (6) fromContinue reading “Lest We Forget”

Where would any one of us be without those in our lives who have given us a second chance or third chance or multiple chances?  The teacher who refused to let us go our own stubborn way.  The parent who sought us and brought us back from the “foreign country” that we had wandered aimlessly and foolishlyContinue reading “God of the Second Chance”

That question can be answered with a “Yes” or “No,” but along with those brief answers there should be an accompanying spoken or unspoken reason for such an assertion. The label “Christian” is pretty common in today’s world.  Some will assume that if one is not a Jew or Muslim then he is a Christian,Continue reading “Are You a Christian?”

We said farewell to our friend Bertha a few days ago who, on the third Lord’s Day of March in 2021, was escorted through the heavens to her home on high where she has an irrevocable deed to a dwelling place where Jesus lives and where she will live with Him and His forevermore.  HerContinue reading “Making A Difference Around the World”

This story has been in the making more than 55 years and I will share with you the exciting continuing saga as up to date as this day, but first a bit of background. When I was a junior at Bob Jones University, preparing for ministry, a call came to Dr. Stenholm, the director ofContinue reading “A Child’s Prayer Answered”

A  young man who had lived on the southside of Indianapolis, ending up for help at Lester Roloff’s Lighthouse for men from whence he would migrate to Tennessee Temple College in the early 1970’s, and a quiet, shy young lady from Prosperity, West Virginia, also a student at TTC at that same time, met, fell inContinue reading ““If We Did Not Go, Who Would Go?””

Our focus today is that wisdom from above, and our text book is the New Testament epistle of James, chapter three, verses 13-18.  James has identified two kinds of wisdom:  (1)  One that is earthly, sensual, devilish and, therefore, destructive, divisive and demonic; and (2) One that is from above which can be identified inContinue reading “Two Kinds of Wisdom, Pt. 2”

Job asked, “Where shall wisdom be found?”  James queries, “Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge?”  The quest for life’s age-old answers concerning wisdom, its source and substance, takes one ultimately to the Book of Wisdom, Solomon’s Proverbs:  “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom,” and on a similar theme, “The fear ofContinue reading “Two Kinds of Wisdom”