Happiness

“Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doingit, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 2:11 People have personal preferences regarding what things...

I Am Not Ashamed

  When a man says: “I Am Not Ashamed!” he makes you lift up your eyebrows:  He gives you he feeling that you want to take a long, searching, look at him. For where is the man bold enough to say, that neither in himself, nor in his family, nor in his community,...

Our Natural and Spiritual Bodies

“It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.” (1 Corinthians 15:43-44) In this portion of...

The Name Above Every Name

What’s in a name?  Shakespeare tells us that there is nothing in a name.  He says if a rose was called by any other name, it would smell just as sweet.  In a sense, however, he is wrong.  If I were to give you a signed check for 1 million dollars, it would be...

Atheism Part 2 of 2

  Russell was an ardent proponent of Darwinism. He taught his children that “mankind was no more than an accident of evolution.”  When he traveled with his family, his daughter recalls, “he suggested that we might lean out the windows when we passed other cars...