“Honor your father and your mother.” (Exodus 20:12) Sunday is a big day in the life of mothers. In fact, our country has celebrated Mother’s Day on the second Sunday in May ever since President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed it as a national holiday in 1914. But that’s just part of the story about how one of our nation’s most coveted days began. Strangely, the rest of the story has been forgotten, given way I guess to all the commercialism that Mother’s Day now carries with it. Its founder […]

“The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Make straight the way of the Lord’.” (John 1:23) “Cinco de Mayo” in Spanish means May 5th. It’s becoming a major holiday in our country due to a growing Mexican-American population. For them, it’s a celebration of their culture, but a lot of Americans have also embraced the holiday -mostly it gives them another day in the year to celebrate. After all, our calendar is filling up with reasons to have a party. Cinco de Mayo is an important day […]

“But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away!” (2 Timothy 3:1-5) We remember where we were when we first heard that Middle East terrorists flew two airliners into the World Trade […]

“Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew 18:3) “I want what you have.” I remember those words like it was yesterday. I said them to myself about my wife, then just a friend, when I was lost and did not know Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. Life for me was a tumble. I just went from one crisis to the next…nothing ever seemed to go my way. I […]