Loneliness

Listen to this strange verse from the Bible: “I am like a Pelican of the wilderness:  I am like an owl of the desert.  I watch, and am, as a Sparrow alone upon the house top.”  These are words of a lonely man.  God has so made man, that he  needs, the comfort and...

Blind Guides

  “Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!”  (Matthew 23:16)  The 23rd chapter of Matthew contains some harsh denunciations as Jesus...

The Dance of Compromise

“Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers…Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeeliever?”                 2 Corinthians 6:14a; 15b Over the years I have had the opportunity to visit with, work with, some honorable men who followed the tenets...

Why Churches become Irrelevaant

  There has never been a society that has been Relative very long and there has never been a church that has been relative very long. Relative churches gradually relativize themselves out of existence. That is exactly what is happening in the relative, state churches...

The Foolishness of God

THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD   There is a verse in the Bible that says, “The preaching of the cross is to them that perish, foolishness, bug unto us which are saved, it is the Power of God.”  In Paul’s day preaching of the Gospel of Christ was foolishness, and I am afraid...