“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, his ox or his donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.” (Exodus 20:17) Now that Black Friday is behind us, I’d like to take a brief pause from Christmas to explore an important spiritual truth. It may very well change the way we think about the Christmas season. Christmas is a season when we often have trouble distinguishing our wants from our needs, but that shouldn’t come as […]

“Let us come before him with thanksgiving.” (Psalm 95:2) Satan has a stronghold on Thanksgiving. Have you noticed? Retail merchants don’t play it up anymore like they did when I was a kid. They skip right by Thanksgiving and go from Halloween to Christmas. In fact, many of them don’t even close on Thanksgiving Thursday, denying their own employees the opportunity to pause and reflect on the blessings of life. There’s simply too much money to be made on Christmas for them to stop and acknowledge Thanksgiving. History […]

“Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.” (John 15:13) Since we just celebrated Veterans Day, I thought I would honor our veterans with a great story about the song, God Bless America. God Bless America debuted in 1938 when it was first sung by Kate Smith during her radio broadcast on Armistice Day. Many of us weren’t even born when Kate Smith sung God Bless America for the first time. But the lyrics are timeless and the song continues […]

“Then Nathan said to David, ‘You are the man!’” (2 Samuel 12:7) When the prophet Nathan pointed his finger at David and told him his sins were known by God, it shook David to his core. No longer could he think he could hide the fact that he had committed adultery with Bathsheba and murdered her husband, Uriah. He had foolishly convinced himself that out of sight meant out of mind until Nathan reminded him that God knew his sins, not to mention others who worked and lived […]