“The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and those who practice lawlessness, and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be wailing and gnashing of teeth. Then the righteous will shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!” (Matthew 13:41-43) Everyone may look saved in your church, but the Bible says it ain’t so. That’s what the Parable of […]

“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 […]

“For surely there is a hereafter, and your hope will not be cut off.” (Proverbs 23:18) I saw that verse played out in the life of a ten-year-old little boy helping out at a church I once attended. It was one of the sweetest moments that Jesus has brought my way since I decided to follow him. Many churches offer alternatives to Halloween. The alternative my church chose was a drama called Fate’s Place, which points out how the decisions we make every day can send us to […]

“Then Jacob was left alone; and a Man wrestled with him until the breaking of day. Now when He saw that He did not prevail against him, He touched the socket of his hip; and the socket of Jacob’s hip was out of joint as He wrestled with him. And He said, ‘Let Me go, for the day breaks’.” (Genesis 32:24-26) It was a close encounter of the God kind and one of the most unusual stories told in Scripture. To many, it raises more questions than it […]