What Will You Leave Behind?
We are all going “the way of all the earth” (I Kings 2:2), and as David said to his son Solomon, we need to be concerned with what we leave behind. Have you thought about it? If the world continues, you’re going to eventually leave it in death. What will you leave...
How Did 9/11 Happen?
Do you remember where you were and how you felt when you first heard about the attack on the World Trade Center? There was an eerie quietness that fell over the land that day. The United States—the most powerful and prosperous nation on earth—suddenly didn’t...
Where Prayers Collide
One of the ironies of the American Civil War is that Christians on both sides prayed to God for victory. Of course, the Lord did not regard many of these prayers because the lives and motives of the people who prayed them were selfish. But there were Christians on...
The Former Things Have Passed Away
“Say not, ‘Why were the former days better than these?’ For it is not from wisdom that you ask this” (Eccl. 7:10, ESV). Are your best times behind you? If so, you’re not a Christian. Nostalgia is “a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some...