“The Son of Man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 13:41-42) Larry Hagman recently appeared on Entertainment Tonight to promote the two-hour Dallas special that appeared on CBS. Hagman, you may remember, is a recovering alcoholic whose passion for the bottle ultimately destroyed his liver and placed his name on a transplant list. The […]

“For this people’s heart has become calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.” (Matthew 13:15) When I was a small child, my family watched Oral Roberts on television every week. The Oral Roberts of the late 1950’s was not the Oral Roberts whom we know today. In the early years of his ministry, Roberts conducted healing services and won notoriety […]

“The virgin will be with child and will give birth to a son, and they will call him Immanuel, which means, God with us.” (Matthew 1:23) I have a friend and coworker whom I see almost every day. He often comments about my column and asked me recently to deal with a spiritual question that has bothered him for many years. “One Saturday, I want you to tell me why God had to resort to such extreme measures to save us. I mean, if He is so all-knowing […]

“Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” (Galatians 6:2) The ink was hardly dry on last week’s column when a friend of mine approached me just before a service at a church I was visiting last Sunday. As I watched the orchestra ready itself for worship, he came up to me and asked me for my continued prayers for him and his family. I was mildly startled by his plea because when I looked into his eyes, I noticed a […]