“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.” (Psalms 119:105) My wife and I stumbled into a gallery while shopping recently, a gallery unlike any we’ve ever seen. If you haven’t taken a trip to one of Thomas Kinkade’s galleries, it’s a must. Every picture hanging on the wall literally glows. For example, neighborhood scenes show light-filled houses that look as if the light is inside is real. The truth is the light is real, at least according to Kinkade, who recently […]

“Now is the time of God’s favor, now is the day of salvation.” (2 Corinthians 6:2) Americans have been thinking a lot about God over the last month. Church attendance is up dramatically, as are the sale of Bibles. It seems that the battle between good and evil is beginning to reach the very soul of man, but then we’ve been told all along that there aren’t any atheists in foxholes. The truth is there couldn’t be a better time to help others come to know the love […]

“Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves.” (Romans 13:1-2) A prominent state legislator once told me, “I don’t get mad. I get even.” I’ve thought a lot about that attitude over the last couple of weeks. Are we doing what God would have […]

“Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” (Matthew 25:40) God Bless America debuted in 1938 when it was first sung by Kate Smith during her radio broadcast on Armistice Day. Many of us weren’t even born when Kate Smith sung God Bless America for the first time. But the lyrics are timeless and the song continues to unite our country even though we’re fighting a much different war than […]