Remember the days when a “Party” was a very nice celebration that you went to, upon invitation of course? A very festive event! You know, like a “Birthday Party,” or a “Graduation Party,” or a “Coming Out Party” of some kind. While in the pastorate, the “Graduation Party Circuit” was the annual May-June ritual. A […]
Remember please this truth at the outset as it relates to Satan’s war against Christ and His church: “WHAT SATAN CANNOT PREVENT FROM WITHOUT, HE WILL PERVERT FROM WITHIN.” This quickly brings to my mind this profound and parallel insight from Martin Luther: “FOR WHERE GOD BUILT A CHURCH, THE DEVIL WOULD ALSO BUILD A […]
Ever heard of Chrislam? It is a term being used these days for the union of Christianity and Islam in a brotherhood of faith. In the largest Nigerian City of Lagos, worshippers are being invited to churches for Christians and Moslems in which the lectern holds both the Bible and the Koran, and readings and […]
Bar none, the bigger-than-life character in the Bible that I relate to the most is the man that we all know as “John the Baptist.” Since the Robin Williams film Mrs. Doubtfire, I did cop the name from that film and have affectionately renamed my favorite Bible character John the Baptist-Johnny Doubtfire, and why will […]
Of all of the Old Testament prophets, the one that has most often been likened to Jesus Christ is Jeremiah. You may recall that Jeremiah was thrown into prison by those who wanted to kill him because of the Word of God that He preached – sin, righteousness and judgment (Jeremiah 32:2) He was put […]
Escaping The Grudge Vortex – Scott Visser I was walking out of the Kmart Store in Muskegon, Michigan at 1:20 pm – minding my own business and heading back to my job sight. By the time I made it to the car, my thoughts travelled a few years back in time. Three or four men […]
A young man spied a beautiful young woman walking along the road and followed her for about a mile. The young woman knowing that she was being followed, finally turned, looked straight at the young man and asked him demanding, “Why are you dogging my footsteps?” He answered, “Because you are the loveliest, the most […]
Perhaps you have experienced this a time or two in your marriage. Your wife is feeling particularly romantic, but in her own searching way. Wives are like that! When my wife and I were younger, and we were in bed together at night in our love nest which seemed to make the whole world go […]
We must accept something at the outset, though it is a difficult fact for most people to come to terms with. And it is this: “WE ARE BORN WITHOUT A SMIDGEN OF TRUE LOVE IN OUR ENTIRE BEINGS.”
My name is _____, and if there was one picture that describes my former life, it would be a boat going down a river with a big hole in the bottom of the boat. I was slowly sinking in my sin and my addiction. Someone asked me what was really in the bottle of booze […]
A member of a certain church, who previously had been attending church services regularly, stopped coming to church. After several weeks of this absenteeism, the pastor decided that he would make a visit to the delinquent. When the pastor made the call on him, it was a chilly evening. The preacher found the man at […]
This is our third in a series of three articles dealing with President Obama’s shot heard around the world before the Turkish Parliament. We have looked at his statement in a speech in 2007 when he said about historic Christian America, “Whatever we once were….” Then we considered his statement to the Turkish Parliament, which […]
