Anthropologist Margaret Mead once said, “We are living in the period of greatest change ever known in the history of the world.” Amid all the changes and decay of life, it is encouraging to know that God is unchanging (Malachi 3:6). How so?
First, God is unchanging in his demand for meaningful worship.
Cheap sacrifices and empty formalism never have and still do...
How do we serve God? Once when Jesus was talking about feeding the hungry, clothing the poor, visiting the sick, and helping those in trouble he said, “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me” (Matthew 25:40). We serve God by helping other people. Feeding the hungry, clothing the poor, and visiting the sick are little thi...
There are those who say that American parents are flunking the job of raising children. In many instances this is true. Most often it is because parents simply will not take the time and effort necessary to guide and discipline their children properly. Why is it that many parents do not discipline their children?
Sometimes it is due to unconcern. Some parents just don’t care a...
One of the most pressing issues of our day is that of moral standards. What absolutes impose the limits of freedom? What givens determine what is right and what is wrong?
There are some people who say that there are no absolutes in life. They reject all moral standards completely. They claim freedom on all matters of morals and live only for pleasure. Their motto seems to be “I do what...
One of the most important things in building a good marriage is to keep yourself attractive. When I say that, most people immediately think in terms of physical attractiveness. They think of keeping their body in good shape, their hair neatly fixed, and wearing beautiful clothes.
However, I am talking about keeping yourself inwardly attractive. The Bible tells us that our prima...
Can we believe in miracles today? The answer is emphatically, “YES.” Christian author and apologist G. K. Chesterton proposed that if a person believes in miracles, he believes in them because there are records of miracles in the Bible and in history. And he believes in them because of the testimonies people give about their experiences. But if a man does not believe in miracles, it is...
Someone has said that Jesus "died on the cross to save us from our sins; he arose and lives within us to save us from ourselves.” We need to be saved from our sins of the past. We also need to be saved from ourselves in the present. We are our own worst enemies. It is from our own lusts and desires that all temptation and sin arise.
In every life there is a spiritual tug of war between...
When Jesus called Matthew the tax collector to be his disciple, he expressed a profound faith in a person’s ability to change. Tax collectors in Jesus’ day were political traitors, notorious crooks, and complete outcasts in respectable circles. Nonetheless, Jesus was a constant friend to them and even called one to be among his apostles. After Matthew became a follower of Christ, he wrote the g...
Whether you examine it with a telescope or with a microscope, our universe is indeed amazing. Of its minuteness Bible commentator John Phillips once wrote, “If the molecules in one drop of water could be converted into grains of sand, there would be enough sand to build a concrete highway, half a mile wide and one foot thick, from New York to San Francisco.” Of its immensity English physicist S...