The heart of man is deceitfully wicked, who can know it.
My shoulder was killing me. Ordinarily, I would simply pop an Advil and call it a day, but the pain was intensifying, and Advil wasn’t curing the root cause of the problem. I assumed my pain was associated with a torn rotator cuff. Years earlier, a huge wave body slammed me into the beach, and …
Ring, ring! “Hello?” “Hey, Don – what are you up to?” “Ah, nothing… just wasting time.” How many times have you heard or said that in your lifetime? Rather, how many times have you wasted time in your lifetime? If you are like me, you have wasted years of your life. For example, if I …
I attempted to pray before establishing a relationship with God, but it did not seem to go anywhere. “Did He hear me?” “How can He hear me and billions of other people simultaneously?” “Am I just talking to myself?” I was deeply convinced that there was a God in heaven, but this “prayer thing” was …
I remember in grade school, Groveland Park Elementary; I had a foot race against a classmate. He had just received new shoes from his parents that would make him run fast. As a quick runner, I “smoked him,” and he was left scratching his head, wondering how he lost. In that same school, when it …
James 4:13-16 Go to now, ye that say, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain: 14 Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appeareth for a …
When it comes to trust, we all are selective in what we deem trustworthy. For example, most trust that the chair they are sitting in can support their weight. And yet, cathedraphobia is a phobia some experience related to chairs. As drivers, we have an unusual trust that other drivers are awake, alert, and able …
Upon learning of my dad’s homosexual lifestyle in 1989, I was struck with sadness and confusion. When I learned that he claimed to be a born-again Christian while practicing this rebellious and sinful lifestyle, I became grieved to the core. To grieve is defined as “a deep and poignant distress caused by or as if …
“Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” [Matthew 12:34] You cannot get around it; your mouth will eventually reveal what is in your heart. Your passion cannot help but come to the surface in your thoughts, actions, and eventually words. A football fan thinks and speaks about football. A golf fan watches, …
While the word Revival is not found in the KJV of the Bible, “revive” can be found 13 times. Chayah is the Hebrew word which means to quicken, recover, repair, or restore. It is defined in the Cambridge dictionary as “the process of becoming more active or popular again; a time when interest in religion …
Peter wrote a letter in 2 Peter to them that have obtained “like precious faith with us.” “Like precious” is the Greek word “isotimos” which is defined as “of equal value or honor.” In other words, the believers that he addressed were Christians like you and me. Their faith had equal value to Peter’s faith. …
