“I tell you, now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.” (2 Corinthians 6:2) Easter is my favorite holiday. It ushers in spring and renews the hope and joy that the winter season seems to steal from so many of us. I’ve always thought of Easter as a season of celebration. In fact, my former church in Georgia hosts an Easter production each year for which thousands will literally get off work early to go on one of the seven nights that the […]

“See my servant will act wisely; he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.” (Isaiah 52:13) Michelangelo once turned to a fellow artist and said with frustration in his voice, “Why do you keep filling gallery after gallery with endless pictures on the one theme of Christ in weakness, Christ on the cross, and most of all, Christ hanging dead”? he asked. “Why do you concentrate on the passing episode as if it were the last work, as if the curtain dropped down there on disaster […]

“But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My Father only.” (Matthew 24:36) My adult daughter texted me this week and said, “I think the Lord is coming back”.  I replied, “All of this is in the Bible; and the Bible says it’s going to get worse. I pray that all of my children’s hearts are ready, or will be, before it’s too late.” Did you ever think it could get any worse than it is today?  What’s going on […]

“Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him.” (Psalms 37:74) We live in a world that teaches us that we are at the center of whatever success or failure we experience. You know the old saying, “There’s nothing you can’t accomplish, if you put your mind to it”. That all sounds real good, but it’s not true. Actually, it’s a form of humanism and we are peppered with it every day. So it’s no wonder we often face problems in our own lives with the notion […]