“Your checkbook reveals all that you really believe about stewardship . . . . A person who has been a Christian for even a short while can fake prayer, Bible study, evangelism, attending church, but he can't fake what his checkbook reveals.” Ron Blue, Master Your...
"Love has no exception clause. When we choose to follow God, we give up our rights to be unforgiving, to treat people poorly, or to be discriminatory." Caleb Kaltenbach The month of June is recognized as Pride month. There are Pride events held nationwide in cities...
“The society in which we live suggests in countless ways that the way to go is up." Henri Nouwen Society.org “The society in which we live suggests in countless ways that the way to go is up. Making it to the top, entering the limelight, breaking the record – that’s...
Mother Teresa: "The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.” On January 6, 2019, The Week had a feature article titled “An Epidemic of Loneliness.” In that publication the study noted that nearly half of all Americans feel lonely. They...
James E. Faust: "Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.” "With Candle and Lanthorn, when the Sun shin'd I sought Honest Men, but none could I find." (Diogenes of Sinope) The prophet Jeremiah, like the...
Once a person, or culture, accepts a belief in relativism, any idea of absolute truth or morality that transcends culture becomes nonexistent or irrelevant. George Orwell once said, “The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”...
What does it mean to be a follower of Christ? Dying to self daily . . . to be raised into what Christ has created us to be. What does it mean to be a follower of Jesus? That’s a pretty significant question to ponder. In fact, before you move to the next sentence give...
How can we live faithfully under the authority of scripture to relate to our surrounding culture? The federal National Bridge Inventory notes that there are more than 607,380 bridges in the United States. Some bridges are iconic, such as the Brooklyn Bridge, the...