“When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have ordained, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you visit him?” (Psalm 8:3-4) I was listening to my pastor talk about God’s interest in having fellowship with us and thought to myself: Was God lonely when he created us? Being lonely is a state of being sad because we are not around people. It’s important to understand that before he created us, […]

“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6) If I were to ask you, who said, “A house divided against itself cannot stand”, the vast majority of you would answer Abraham Lincoln, and you would be correct. In fact, those words came from a speech Lincoln made against slavery over 150 years ago. What you may not realize is that Lincoln wasn’t the first person to utter those words. The thought actually […]

“Grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.” (2 Peter 3:18) God has blessed me with a powerful ministry. My newspaper column, which is also featured on my website – www.devotions.com – has over a million page views a year. Ten years ago, at the urging of my wife’s former pastor, we launched an email ministry for those readers who want to have my weekly column hand-delivered to their email boxes each week. When we launched our email ministry, I had no idea […]

“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 […]