The Bible often warns us against covetousness. It tells us that we brought nothing into this world and it is certain that we can carry nothing out. So if we have enough food to eat and enough clothes to wear, we ought to be content. We ought not to always be coveting after, grasping after, more and more and more.
Those who have a strong desire to be rich place themselves in a very dange...
When President John F. Kennedy appointed newscaster Edward R. Murrow director of the United States Information Agency, a Senate committee asked Murrow how he would combat communist propaganda against the United States. He replied simply that the agency should print all the news, “the warts and blemishes” as well as the “sunshine.”
When the Bible tells about a biblical character, it does...
There are only two basic problems in any marriage. One is the husband; the other is the wife. The washing machine is no problem. If it breaks down it can be fixed with a few dollars and any problem that can be fixed with a few dollars is no problem. People are not as easily fixed. In fact you can’t fix them. They have to fix themselves.
This is why, in building a happy marriage, it is s...
Psychiatrists say that the vast neurotic misery of the world could be termed a “neurosis of emptiness.” Such emptiness is always dangerous, for human nature like physical nature abhors a vacuum. A person must be filled with something. If his life is not filled with good, then he becomes easy prey for evil.
Jesus emphasized this when he told the story of a man who drove the devil out of...
We are feeling a crisis in belief in America.
We have rejected God and the Bible and become so open-minded that our brains have fallen out. In the name of tolerance and intellectual sophistication, we have become mushy-headed.
Our godless, materialistic society has created a spiritual vacuum, leaving many lives void of meaning, hope, and stability. Many people are so jaded that...
Death is real. People die and their bodies are buried in the ground. That much we see. As Christians we believe that there is going to be a resurrection of the body at the end of time (John 11:24). The question then is this: “What happens to a person between death and the resurrection?” The Bible speaks clearly concerning this matter. It tells us that at death our body returns to dust and our s...
After the funeral is over, our grieving friends often face their most difficult times. Before, during, and immediately after death sympathy flows like a river. But a month or two later, when loneliness and loss make their strongest impact, friends are needed more than ever.
Here are some things you can do to help your grieving friends after the funeral is over.
1. Spend...
Life involves conflict. It always has and it always will. This is as true of marriage as of any other relationship. When two sinful people (and we all are sinful) have a close relationship of any kind...at home, or at work, or among friends...they have to really work at it.
Here are six good ways to deal with conflict:
1. Handle the conflict as it arises. The Bi...
As the old TV commercial once put it, “If you’ve got it, flaunt it.” That’s what Jesus meant when he said, “Let your light so shine before men, that they see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven” (Matthew 5:16). Our lives are to point men to God but we should not be visible in the church only.
A Christian whose efforts stop at the church door is useless. They shou...