“And because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them.” (Acts 18:3) I celebrated my 57th Birthday last month, which prompted a lot of questions for me about where I am in my Christian walk. The closer I get to 60, the more I realize there are a lot more years behind me than ahead of me. I never thought much about it until I got into my fifties, but the Bible tells us that we should not expect to live too much […]

“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” (Acts 1:8) Billy Graham has said for years that the greatest problem facing America is racism. In fact, Graham’s book, A Prophet with Honor, recalls that in 1953, Graham “dismissed as unbiblical the racist contention that dark skin and the inferior social standing of blacks [were] derived from a curse Noah placed on Canaan, the […]

“Honor your father and your mother.” (Exodus 20: Tomorrow is a big day in the life of mothers. Our country has celebrated Mother’s Day on the second Sunday in May ever since President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed it as a national holiday in 1914. But that’s just part of the story about how one of our nation’s most coveted days began. Strangely, the rest of the story has been forgotten. I guess it has given way to all the commercialism that Mother’s Day now carries with it. Its founder […]

“So David triumphed over the Philistine with a sling and a stone; without a sword in his hand he struck down the Philistine and killed him.” (1 Samuel 17:50) One of the most influential Christians in my life is an attorney with whom I once worked. When we were in Atlanta on a business trip in the late1980’s, I took him to a favorite restaurant of mine. I was not saved at the time. In fact, salvation would not come my way for another two years. We both […]