Thirty-one years ago, in 1986, Becky and I took a group of young people to a country music concert at Austin-Peay State University. The featured artist was Lee Greenwood and…
The story of Ruth unfolded “in the days when the judges governed [and] there was a famine in the land” of Judah (Ruth 1:1). Elimelech took his wife Naomi and…
While you and I continue to live on this earth in our bodies, we have the opportunity to exalt Christ by . . . a. Guarding our eyes — from…
In our text this morning, Paul reveals to us his own unpleasant circumstances. However, he doesn’t allow those circumstances to weigh him down and cause him to become bitter about…
The Scriptures present us with plenty of information that would lead to the unanimous conclusion, “No, Jesus did not deserve death.” He was without sin (Hebrews 4:15). He “committed no…
We have to examine ourselves to know where we are before we know where we need to go. II Cor. 13:5 tells us to test ourselves to see if we…
After reading a part of his second letter to the Christians in Corinth you can’t help but wonder how he manages to keep going (Read 2 Corinthians 11:23-29). Even this…
How would you sum up your mission, focus, purpose, and devotion in life? People will sometimes draft a motto for life. My motto in life has been for several years…
The Parable of the Talents is another parable which Jesus uses to illustrate a truth about the kingdom of heaven. In the previous parable we encountered ten virgins, in this…