As the new year dawns, let’s join together in prayer, asking God for a great revival to sweep across our country and around the world. When we look back in history, the First Great Awakening from 1735 to 1740 absolutely transformed the Colonies. Without it, there...
At Christmas we celebrate the coming of Jesus, the Word made flesh. He is not just words on a page, but the Living Word. He is the I Am—the Way, the Truth, and the Life. And He desires to reveal Himself to us. He tells us, “Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If...
Today is Christmas Eve, at least in most places in the world. It's an exciting time for children who may have left cookies and milk for Santa whom they hope will come down the chimney. For them, sleep will not come easily. But for the parents who look at the scene...
"My sole purpose in going to Florence," wrote Mark Twain in his book, A Tramp Abroad, "was to see this immortal 'Moses,' and by good fortune, I was just in time, for they were already preparing to remove it to a more private and better-protected place because a...
Few people understand what the church is all about and church life. Because they have no clue regarding the purpose of the church, they usually have no idea why a personal pastor is so important to spiritual health. This is the number one reason why so many believers...
There is this saying that “Christmas is the season of giving.” If I can have it my way, there should not be a season for this act. Every day should be a season of giving. I would probably take out the word “season” because it connotes a coming and going. Giving should...
It's December—the twelfth month of the Gregorian calendar. If you live in the northern hemisphere, Jupiter and Saturn are visible at dusk in the eastern sky, and in the southwest sky, a brilliant Venus soars from excellent to magnificent. On the 21st of this month,...
The parol is a unique Christmas symbol from the Philippines. It is a representation of the Star of Bethlehem that shone in the season of Jesus' birth and paved the way for the sages from the East to find Jesus! Traditionally, it is made out of bamboo and Japanese...
We live in a world that is fallen and under the rulership of the evil one, Lucifer. Evil is ever-present. It always has been. It is all around us. It influences us. And at times evil is within us because we live in a human body and a fallen world. The word evil is...
God wants to do something new in our lives! He tells us in Isaiah 43:19, “Behold, I will do a new thing, now it shall spring forth; shall you not know it?” Yet we must be careful not to block the blessings that He has in store for us. While the Israelites were...