“For 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 […]

“You cannot serve both God and Money.” (Luke 16:13) It’s income tax time – a season each year that sort of sneaks up on us in January as we begin to receive our W-2’s or 1099’s. The truth is we shouldn’t just take a financial accounting of our last year; we need to take a spiritual accounting, too. What did we do last year for the Lord with all that money and talent he gave us? We often think that God doesn’t care a lot about money. After […]

“And he will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then the king will say to those on his right hand, ‘Come, you blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world’…Then he will also say to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels’.” (Matthew 25:33-34, 41) When I lived in Georgia, my wife and I visited several churches before we […]

“Hear my prayer, O God; listen to the words of my mouth.” (Psalms 54:2) Several years ago, I had to fly to New York for a business meeting. I don’t know about you, but I have always found the aisle seats to be the most comfortable. Since I had a two-hour flight, I asked the travel agent to reserve an aisle seat for me. I boarded the plane and quickly found my seat. However, I looked up to see a young man in crutches who was to be […]