Are You Content?

Are You Content?

Are You Content?   The wealthiest and wisest man who ever lived said the problem of mankind is that people are not satisfied. His name was Solomon. In the book of Ecclesiastes, he wrote about the emptiness inside us that can drive us to seek satisfaction through...
Spiritual Zeal or Ice Cold?

Spiritual Zeal or Ice Cold?

The coldest temperature ever recorded in the U.S. was in–you guessed it–Alaska. In 1971 temperatures reached -79.8F at Prospect Creek Camp in Alaska. The lowest temperature in the contiguous 48 states was -69.7 in Montana  December 10, 2013.   I wonder what the...
Long Game

Long Game

Successful people plan ahead. Planning for tomorrow is good business practice. Sometimes governments plan ahead. One should plan ahead as best as possible. There is no promise of tomorrow, nor what it will bring (James 4:13–14). That being understood, the people of...
Peace and Contentment

Peace and Contentment

While contentment is hard to find for most people, many are only content when things are going well in their lives. They look at good health and fortune as a means for being content. These are things that bring us happiness in life, but what about the times when...
Limping Christians

Limping Christians

One preacher was writing about the sad condition of the United States. He said “the very frame of our government, our constitution, laws, bills of rights are all occasionally defied and trodden under foot…Mobs, arson, murder, in order to put down offensive...