“He who would love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips from speaking deceit.” (1 Peter 3:10) When I was a child, my dad hired a housekeeper who would pay me to cuss her out. Can you believe it? It just tickled her to death to hear a child “cuss like a sailor”. I continued to cuss like a sailor all the way to adulthood. The truth is it became such a natural part of my lifestyle that I actually […]

“ Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6) If I were to ask you, who said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand”, the vast majority of you would answer Abraham Lincoln, and you would be correct. In fact, those words came from a speech Lincoln made against slavery over 150 years ago. What you may not realize is that Lincoln wasn’t the first person to utter those words. The thought […]

“Now Joshua the son of Nun sent out two men from Acacia Grove to spy secretly, saying, ‘Go, view the land, especially Jericho.’ So they went, and came to the house of a harlot named Rahab, and lodged there.” (Joshua 2:1) We often name our children after some of the heroes in the Bible: Joshua, Caleb, Ruth, Sarah. Yet we never hear of a child named Jezebel or Rahab for obvious reasons. Who in the world would name a child after a prostitute? Interestingly, Rahab was an Old […]

“The Lord redeems the soul of His servants, and none of those who trust in Him shall be condemned.” (Psalm 34:22) Recently, a Charlotte museum welcomed a US Airways Airbus A320 the just three years earlier went down in the Hudson River in New York City. You remember it. It is the reason why so many of us pray more fervently when we board an airline today. It pointed out to me just how right the Apostle James really was when he wrote, “You do not know what […]