The Collection—What?

The Collection—What?

I grew up in a Southern Baptist church. We went to Sunday school and attended worship regularly. I have clear childhood memories of those services. The people were kind and my Bible class teachers were morally upright. Though I can’t recall a lot of what the preachers...
What if They Won’t Listen?

What if They Won’t Listen?

Ezekiel was a prophet of God. He lived at a dark time in Israel. When the Babylonians attacked Jerusalem in 605 B.C., Daniel and other Jews were deported to Babylon. Eight years later the Babylonians attacked Jerusalem again. This time Ezekiel and thousands of others...
A Disunited Denomination

A Disunited Denomination

The Methodist church, like all other denominations, began with a man. John Wesley and his brother Charles started a movement to reform the practices of the Church of England in the mid-1700s. The Church of England was a spinoff from the Roman Catholic Church which was...
Taken Out of Man

Taken Out of Man

Surely no God-fearing believer would believe anything other than God designed everything with purpose. Many question the purpose of mosquitoes. I may not know the answer, but God does. One design whose purpose is clear is the home. In the beginning God made male and...
Saints in a Sewer

Saints in a Sewer

The Roman historian Tacitus said the ancient city of Rome was like a sewer into which the filth of all the nations flowed. He was not a Christian. In fact, he said Christianity was a “depraved superstition.” But his assessment of the moral condition of Rome was right....