“What do you think about putting a sword in the display at the front of the church on Christmas Eve?” One of the decorators at church asked me a…
Marvin Dyck
Acts 2:14–24 “Then everyone who calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved” (Acts 2:21). Why? Why is salvation available only to those who respond by calling on…
Psalm 90:12 April 9, 2014, began like any other day for my 88-year-old mom on the farm where she’d moved when she married my dad in 1951. First, there was…
Isaiah 6:1–4, 6 Seraphim are impressive beings! Can you imagine six-winged creatures so powerful the sound of their voices makes a building shake? I’ve been to rock concerts where the…
Abram and his wife Sarai were childless. Sarai was 89 years old. What are the chances a woman unable to bear children throughout her entire life would bear a child at 89? But God had promised Abram and Sarai a baby 24 years earlier.
Dad loved to work. One of his frustrations in the last year was the loss of strength to work. He knew well how to delegate, having raised seven children on a farm; but now he guarded the tasks he was still able to do, such as moving folding chairs from the car’s trunk to the house, and expressly asked that I not help.
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7 tips for talking to non-Christians: Insights from Paul’s trip to Athens
by ContributorHow does someone who believes that no one comes to the Father but through Jesus (John 14:6) communicate that message to those with a different worldview? The Apostle Paul, in Athens (Acts 17), gives us a good road map to follow.*
James 2: 8-13 When you hear stories about crime in your city, do you find yourself wishing the perpetrators were locked up for life? Do you sometimes feel like some…
Respectable Sins: Confronting the Sins We Tolerate
Author: Jerry Bridges
As a follower of Jesus Christ, what issues of right and wrong really upset you? Environmental practices? Militarism? Economic disparity in our nation, or between nations? The indebtedness of poor nations to the wealthy west? Abortion? The difference between the Bible’s sexual code of conduct and what you see around you…