“Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.” (Proverbs 22:6) The date was June 24, 1962. I was nine years-old and had just walked down the aisle of First Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, North Carolina to profess my faith in Christ. After Sunday dinner that afternoon, a friend of my family gave me a Bible with an inscription that read, “To my little friend, Mike Ruffin: Today, June 24, 1962, you have opened your […]

“Whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst…The water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:14) Our mission as Christians is to win others to Christ. But the tricky part about soul winning is that it is more of an art than a science. In other words, how we go about it can make all the difference in the world. For example, the easy thing to do is to point […]

“Whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.” (Romans 10:13) For most of us, Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ untimely death did not affect us…or did it? Jobs was iconic and deserves much of the credit for transforming cell phones into pocket computers. Even though you may not own one of his iPhones, the phone you do own works like it does because of what he did with the iPhone. As I watched testimonial after testimonial since Mr. Jobs died, I couldn’t help but appreciate how […]

“Jesus answered and said to him, ‘Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God’.” (John 3:3) He appeared three times in the Bible. The first, of course, was that fateful night when under the cloak of darkness, he heard that he must be born again to go to heaven. That exchange with Jesus changed his life forever. I believe it because at the end of our Savior’s life, it was Nicodemus who accompanied Joseph of Arimathea and attended […]