If we are honest with ourselves, we don’t always have the feeling that God is relevant to our everyday lives. I don’t mean in the overall sense of knowing God’s plan and purpose. I am thinking of something more up close and personal. The longer … [Read more...]

Madagascar Travelogue -- March 2019 With bad weather abounding, my wife and I boarded a London to Paris flight on Sunday afternoon (March 10th) in order to be safely and certainly in Paris for our flight to Antananarivo (often called … [Read more...]

If Christ were to run for political office today, would He be elected? (Of course we, as followers of God, do not involve ourselves in the politics of this world. But to make an important point, let us continue.)  Hypothetically, we could reason … [Read more...]

Job made an interesting observation when he was answering his friends’ accusations as to why so many bad things had happened to him. “A lamp is despised to the thought of one who is at ease; it is made ready for those whose feet slip” (Job 12:5). … [Read more...]

In May of 1992, former US President George Bush Sr. shared with the nation a firmly held belief. “Government cannot solve all the problems. We may be able to make good laws, but it’s never been able to make good men. That doesn’t come from Big … [Read more...]

How important are relationships within the Body of Christ? This question is prompted by the state of affairs in what we broadly refer to as “the world.” The world is a generic term for planet earth and all life on it, including human civilization. … [Read more...]

Recently I read a statement made by a major religious denomination based in the United States that surprised me. They wrote, “Divine grace is needed by every soul in consequence of the Fall of Adam …”. What is meant by “soul” is not stated, but the … [Read more...]

In the beginning, God said, “…Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…” (Genesis 1:26). What a privilege God has given us -- out of all His vast creation. King David was both humbled and thankful for the understanding of such a … [Read more...]

When we respond to Christ’s direction to “go into your room and when you have shut the door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place,” what visualization of God forms in your mind? When we talk to another person face to face, we see the person … [Read more...]

There is one subject where practically everyone in the world is in agreement. That is the idea that “everybody else has it better than I do!”. Who doesn’t know someone for whom things are not going “better” than for me? Despite the fact that, in … [Read more...]