The Valley of Decision In John Bunyan’s book, Pilgrim’s Progress, the pilgrim, named Christian, entered the fearful Valley of the Shadow of Death. When he is in the middle of …

Christ-Like In the middle of one of the many times Jesus talked to His disciples about the Father, Philip interrupted by saying: “Lord, show us the Father, and it is …

Be Anxious for Nothing To the Philippian Church Paul writes: “do not be anxious about anything…” (4.6) This is hard to do, don’t you think? Life is full of little …

The Abiding Word When a word is spoken it puts out sound waves. These sound waves can bounce around objects creating an echo and be heard by those near, but …

Hanukkah Lights Hanukkah, which means dedication in Hebrew, commemorates the rededication of the Temple in Jerusalem in the year 164 B.C. The Temple had been desecrated by the Syrian Greek …

Human Beings In William Shakespeare’s play, Hamlet, the despondent Hamlet considers suicide while bemoaning the unfairness of life, yet in considering this recognizes that death may be even worse. He …

From Nothing to Something Do you like to read “rags-to-riches” stories? These are the accounts of those people who began with nothing and then became rich and famous. Like the …

The Lord Is Faithful In an age when truth has been reduced to opinion and covenants are easily broken, to talk of the faithfulness of God is an anomaly. Moses …

It Is Written I have come to see our spiritual battle against the devil as a battle of arguments, or words. It is like being in a courtroom. You have …

Trustworthy Sayings In reading the letters Paul sent to his disciples, Titus and Timothy, I came across a phrase that was repeated several times. The sentence is: “This is a …