Roses are perhaps the world’s favorite flower. However, there is a facet of growing roses that we don’t focus on—fertilizing. Yet, fertilizer is a very necessary part of growing beautiful blooms. Unfortunately, the best fertilizer to produce lovely roses is the...
Shortly after Jesus rose from the dead, He told two disciples on the road to Emmaus, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!”... He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself (Luke 24:25, 27). One...
In many ways, the problem of suffering is more difficult for Christians to deal with than for non-Christians. Why? The Christian believes that nothing happens apart from the will of God, that He is sovereign and all-powerful, and—bottom line—that God is good, loving,...
When the 21-year-old spacecraft, Columbia, disintegrated on its re-entry into Earth's atmosphere on February 1, 2003, a new pantheon of heroes was born—men and women who knew the risks they were taking yet chose to take that chance. With that understanding of the...
"It's pretty easy to be a fan, says James Grogan, pastor of Eastlake Church in Chula Vista, California. 'A fan's investment level is shallow—tuned in now, tuned out any moment now. That's how many people regard Jesus today.'" Come to think of it, some treat Jesus like...
What do you do when you are afraid? That is the question that Andrew Brunson asks. Brunson is a soft-spoken man with a kind-looking face. He is also a man that knows something about fear. Brunson is an American pastor who was unjustly imprisoned by the Turkish...
Jesus was once approached by a rich young man with this question: “What good thing can I do to inherit eternal life?” Jesus listed the common commandments that all Jews knew. The young man replied, possibly with some smugness, “I have done all of this!” as if to show...
How wonderful to know that God shows no partiality or favoritism. As Acts 10:34 says, God is no respecter of persons. What He has done for others, He wants to do for you. You don’t have to convince God or bargain with Him for what you need. You simply have to realize...
Love is all you need, sang the British rock band, The Beatles, in 1967, during what was called the “Summer of Love.” And whether or not the kind of love the Beatles were singing of is really what the world needed, it is true that our world would be a drab and desolate...
God works in and through the difficulties and problems that confront you in ways that you seldom see except in retrospect. That's when you look back and say, "Ah, now I can see the hand of God leading, guiding, and protecting me; but I certainly didn't see it at the...