“Now Isaac loved Esau, because he had a taste for game; but Rebekah loved Jacob.” (Genesis 25:28) I am a product of a blended family. In other words, as a child I lived under the same roof with a parent and a stepparent, both of whom were rearing children of their own. I am now the head of a blended family. And while my whole perspective about it has changed, one thing hasn’t: Harmony in a blended family is a difficult to sustain. I am ashamed to admit […]

“Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him.” (Psalms 37:74) We live in a world that teaches us that we are at the center of whatever success or failure we experience. You know the old saying, “There’s noting you can’t accomplish, if you put your mind to it.” That all sounds real good, but it’s not true. Actually, it’s a form of humanism and we are peppered with it every day. So it’s no wonder we often face problems in our own lives with the notion […]

“For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?” (Matthew 16:26) No one was more prepared to speak on the subject of vanity than Solomon. He lived a life chasing all the traps that his money could set for him. After he finally learned that it would get him nowhere, he wrote a book about it and called it Ecclesiastes. Ecclesiastes means preacher and boy did Solomon ever preach about how “wine, women and song” almost cost him […]

“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 […]