Why Can’t Everyday be Like Christmas?

Why Can’t Everyday be Like Christmas?

The song recorded by Red West [c 1965] has become a staple of Christmas carols “O why can’t every day be like Christmas?” It’s an interesting thought in many ways, but specifically in a spiritual sense. A characteristic of many is to arise early to go to a church...
Binary or Non-Binary Bibles

Binary or Non-Binary Bibles

For centuries Bible readers understood that the English word man is both a generic and specific term. It can mean a male in contrast to a female; but it can also mean mankind, or, human beings in general—both male and female. The women’s liberation movement and...
Controlling the Tongue

Controlling the Tongue

“And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity:  so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell” (James 3:6). “Defileth” means to spot or stain (Young’s Analytical...
What’s Love Got to Do With It?

What’s Love Got to Do With It?

It would seem reasonable that the term love is one most used in the language. Listen to young and old alike and you’ll hear their love professed from potato chips, cats, dogs, to of course, family. Many profess love for one another and say they love God. Expressions...
Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

Mature Christianity is realized in selfless love (I Cor. 13). It is the selfless heart that brings forth true thanksgiving. Selfishness gone, prideful arrogance behind, the humble Christian has no resistance to expressing his/her thanksgiving and living thankfully. It...