You will find a parable Jesus taught in the gospel of a time when He and His disciples, as well as others, were crossing the Sea of Galilee. During their crossing, the Bible says a great windstorm arose and the waves beat into the boat, so much it was even filling with water. Now, Jesus was in the …
The story starts in Genesis, Chapter 6. It is the story of Noah and the great flood. When God saw how sinful mankind had become, He decided to bring an end to this kind of behavior, and He did. God is a very patient God, but He says that He will not be mocked continually by what He created. Today …
How many of us would like to go back and redo our life, or at least some parts of it? Just think of it, to be able to go back and have done some things differently, to have the ability to take back some words we wished we would not have said or to have said something to someone we didn’t before. …
Daily, each one of us is sowing seeds into the lives of others, and just because we may not be around any person on a given day doesn’t mean we are not still affecting them. For example, let’s say you have said some very bad words to another and these words really cut into that person’s heart. …
In this world we live in, 150,000 people die every day. Most of them are people you will never know here on earth, and some you will know very well. As more people populate the earth, the number leaving goes up. In reality, there can be two deaths a person is given: the physical death most of us …
Awhile back an old friend of mine took his life. It really was a shock to others and me at the time. I began to remember back of some of the funny things that happened in our lives as boys growing up, and it was hard to understand. This once very lively guy who always enjoyed life and hardly ever …
The book of Exodus tells a story many have heard, the account of Moses who had left Egypt and now lived in the land of Midian, which is in the “Sinai Peninsula.” Moses was a shepherd and one day noticed a burning bush. It says in Exodus 3:2-4, “And the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame …
The day in which the church now lives has become a much different place than 100 years ago. It’s not because God has changed, for He’s the same as He was yesterday and will be tomorrow. Rather, it’s the people who make up the church that changed. We live in a world that demands change, almost in …
Little Ben was born in 1833 on a farm outside of Cincinnati, Ohio. He served in the United States Senate from 1881-87. He was 5 feet, 6 inches tall, and that is where he got his nickname “Little Ben.” He was nominated for president in 1889. As president, his foreign policy expanded …
So many have paid a high price for serving God, and because of what others have sacrificed for, we have seen many blessings; yet today quite a few have forgotten and don’t even care. The Bible tells us that everyone is called to follow Jesus, but few are chosen (Matthew 22:14). You see, God chooses …