“The goodness of God endureth continually.” (Psalms 52:1) Behavioral scientists tell us that grandparents are the best teachers of the “family values” that serve us so well through adulthood. I can certainly attest to that fact when I look back at the special relationship that my own wife had with her maternal grandmother, who passed away in 1999. Robbie’s Thanksgiving holiday that year was filled with joy and gratefulness, not so much over the traditional things on which we often reflect during this special time of the year, […]

“But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.” (Romans 6:17) I understand exactly what the Apostle Paul means when he says, “You used to be slaves to sin.” But I didn’t understand it until I was born again. Salvation gave me a whole different perspective about the life I used to live. The truth is I can’t believe some of the things I did, not to mention some of the […]

“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 and Cyber Monday are 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 […]

“Then the serpent said to the woman, ‘You will not surely die. For God knows that in the day you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil’.” (Genesis 3:4-5) I once thought that Satan was not the source of all evil in this world. Just because people could be bad, ugly, mean-spirited, or whatever label you might want to attach to it, didn’t have to mean that the devil made them do it. A lot of unbelievers […]