Today’s flippant attitude toward marriage is nothing new.  According to Edward Gibbons, the renowned historian, the divorce problem was one of five underlying causes contributing to the fall of the Roman Empire.  Seneca spoke of Roman women as married to be divorced and divorced to be married.  Many citizens of Rome were said to have

     In their consuming desire to wake the sleeping member, many denominations have transformed the worship service into a three-ring circus.  We understand a preacher in England has started delivering his sermons through a ventriloquist’s dummy.  Another minister recently planned an all-church dance in the graveyard adjoining the meetinghouse, explaining, “We want to show that

How long has it been since you slowed down, sat down, turned off the television, and spent a bit of time reading the Bible? You say you just don’t have the time?  You’ll have to invent a better excuse that this one.  Did you know an average reader can complete reading the entire Bible in

Daniel Boone once asked if he had ever been lost.  His reply?  “No, but I was once bewildered for three whole days.” Like Boone, most of us are reluctant to admit our mistakes.  We offer semantic substitutions.  We insist on changing the subject.  We make frantic attempts to obviate the obvious.  We rationalize, we trivialize

I would be happy, or so oft I say, If trouble could leave me somehow; If life started suddenly going my way, And not as it’s going right now. Oh!  What a joy and blessing I’d be; I’d be a true servant, you know; If only my burdens weren’t bothering me, And life hadn’t brought

We continue to count it a blessing  to serve Christ throughout the year.   May Almighty God bless you in 2023!

Concerning the subject of Bible baptism, sincere and determined minds have discussed, debated and disagreed for centuries now.  Many heated arguments, shouting matches, and more than a few fist fights have arisen around the issue.  But the truth about baptism has never been, nor will it ever be, determined by consensus.  What matters is not

One thing is certain:  life in the flesh is fraught with pain, difficulty and suffering.  Bad things happen, and they often happen to good people.  Age, disease and sickness destroy our health.  Family problems enter uninvited into our homes, threatening to destroy the lives and souls of those we love most dearly.  Financial strain, job-related

The Israelites, safe on Canaan’s side of the Red Sea, celebrated a wonderful time of thanksgiving.  The fifteenth chapter of Exodus contains the Song of Moses, a hymn of genuine thanks to God for Israel’s deliverance from Egyptian bondage. What a marvelous Thanksgiving Day that must have been! Unfortunately, their attitude of gratitude was short-lived: 

   Fanny Crosby serves as a wonderful example of gratitude.  This most unusually talented lady, blind from the age of six, spent a lifetime writing the words to a good many of the songs in our hymnal.  As a child, she penned the following lines:         Oh, what a happy child I