We Are A Work In Progress

Being Made Into His Likeness Artists often see a a sculpture, a painting, a picture in their mind long before others see it with their physical .  Back in 1927, Gutzon Borglum saw something that others hadn’t seen in a 5,700-foot mountain in South Dakota. After...

One of My Favorite Hymns

“God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear.” (Psalm 46:1-2) Martin Luther,   in spite of his feet of clay is one of my favorite heroes. Few people have influenced Christianity and Wesern Civilization as he...

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...

Atheism Does Not Set You Free!

Part 1 of 2        (Part 1 of 2)              I’m at it again, reading another book by an atheist, I mean a real atheist. I’m convinced that most people who say they are,  are not so in their heart of hearts. As one such man inadvertently said, “Thank God I’m an...

“…To Die Is Gain.”

Here is a strange and wonderful statement, made by the Apostle Paul in the inspired Word of God: “For me to live is Christ   and to die  is gain…Paul is saying, here that for a Christian, it is far better, to go to heaven than to remain here on earth.  He said, the...

Mockers Never Cease

   “But it so happened, when anballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, that he was furious and very indignant, and mocked the Jews” (Nehemiah 4:1)  The art of mocking God and His people has changed little through the ages. The pagan enemies that...