Two Battlefronts

Two Battlefronts

A Christian friend from a third world country told me, “America is in a war.” That war is inside our land. It is a moral and spiritual conflict. We have been saying this for years, and we sense it now more than ever. To hear someone who was raised in such a different...
Feeding the Minds of Children

Feeding the Minds of Children

We all have a special interest in training young people because they are the future. This is why we teach our children and grandchildren about how to live and how to make a living. It is why churches give so much effort to instill the Bible in boys and girls. We...
Skin for Skin

Skin for Skin

The devil wants to deceive us. Sometimes he does this by telling us an outright lie. He lied to Eve when he said, “You will not surely die” (Gen. 3:4). Tragically, this worked for him then and it still works today. At other times he is more underhanded. When he...
Trials Dark on Every Hand

Trials Dark on Every Hand

I don’t know why troubles come two or three at once but they do. We would rather have one problem at a time so we can catch our breath before the next crisis arrives. But life is not that simple. We sometimes have several health issues and think there is one cause of...
The Church Needs to be Militant

The Church Needs to be Militant

Militant: “1: engaged in warfare; 2: aggressively active esp. in a cause” (The Merriam-Webster Dictionary). These are trying times for the Lord’s church.  We are constantly being encouraged and taught that we should love everybody, never offend anyone or be...