“May she who gave you birth rejoice.” (Proverbs 23:25) I remember that day like it was yesterday. It was a cold January day, 53 years ago. And while I was only in the second grade, I knew a lot more about what was going on than they thought I did. As I looked across the school playground, I saw one of my mama’s best friends talking to my teacher. I just stood there, frozen in my steps. Even though they were out of earshot, I knew exactly what […]

“For He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you’.” (Hebrews 13:5) All of us wonder from time to time if God really cares about what’s going on in our lives. Why? Because there are those occasions in life when “life” seems to be crashing down on us. We live for the Lord and when things go awry, we seek his comfort and his guidance. We pray, but nothing seems to come of it. “Where is He?” We wonder. I confess I have had those […]

“But whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life.” (John 4:14) Our mission as Christians is to win others to Christ. But the tricky part about soul winning is that it is more of an art than a science. In other words, how we go about it can make all the difference in the world. For example, the easy thing to do […]

“For ‘whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved’.” (Romans 10:13) For most of us, former Apple CEO Steve Jobs’ untimely death did not affect us…or did it? Jobs was iconic and deserves much of the credit for transforming cell phones into pocket computers. Even though you may not own one of his iPhones, the phone you do own works like it does because of what he did with the iPhone when it originally launched. As I watched the testimonials and movies since Mr. Jobs […]