What a child learns first lasts the longest! That is exactly what Solomon is saying in Proverbs 22:6 when he states, “Train up a child in the way he should go, even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Listen, boys will be men and girls will be women, and the path […]
Often we Christians get so caught up with our own individual lives, families and churches, that we lose sight of our global context, as well as our role in it and our responsibility to it. We so easily become provincial, and rather than having a healthy outlook and outreach, we become ingrown and indifferent to […]
No one can deny that she is seriously ill! Any nation that kills its young, protects as well as promotes perversion, legalizes and protects hard-core pornographers, hands out birth control to children, bans prayer and God’s laws from its schools, is spiritually and morally on the critically-sick list of dying nations? Any nation that can […]
We received the following report from a Christian missionary in a sensitive country, as well as being given the permission to bring it to you. A young Shi-ite Muslim man recently accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior. God powerfully called him to be a missionary to Shi-ite Muslims.The new young Christian first of […]
As the CEO of Coca-Cola, Roberto Goizueta once said, “You know, we became uncompetitive when we ceased to be tolerant of mistakes. Once you are preoccupied with failure, you are on the path to inactivity.” How true! Listen, when you first tried to walk, you fell and you fell and you fell, but you always […]
You don’t have a biological mother, for she gave you up when she was very young. You never knew your biological father. You have tried without success to find any trace of your family in terms of brothers and sisters. You don’t know if they are or where any of them could be. You don’t […]
The economy is faceless. No one can pinpoint the economy. America is dealing with a heartless phantom called “The Economy!” And you are asking in the midst of all of this, “Does God care about the fact that there is not enough money at the end of the monthly bills? Does He care that the […]
I was brought up in the environment where I was told that the time of God’s miracles was past. Of course if you are told by your preacher that the age of miracles is past, even though you need a miracle from God, you find yourself thinking, “Well then, I won’t pray for that because […]
Garth Brooks certainly has been and is one of the great entertainers in the modern world. There was a time that he was a bouncer in a bar. Now he makes his millions. He has made the top of the charts with popular music as well as country and western. Brooks once observed, “You know, […]
You say, “I am a sinner. I am tempted in every direction. What am I to do? Am I to have a stiff upper lip? Am I just to gut it out? Or is there another way? I am trying to follow Christ, and yet there are temptations on every side. I am so weak, […]
Everything in the secular and religious world these days is designed to appeal to our egos. You walk in a secular or religious bookstore and the titles of gobs of books shout at you saying, “There is a giant in you. The sky is the limit. Go for it! There is nothing you can’t do.” […]
It was the fall of 1975 when I began visiting the Du-Page County Jail in Illinois. I am Gideon Ray, and we Gideons had free access to walk from cell block to cell block bringing Scriptures and talking to men about the Lord. Most cell blocks had 20 beds except those confined to maximum security. […]
