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…
When most of us hear the word “watchman” our minds produce an image of a single individual who is given the responsibility to keep guard during the lonely hours of…
Many of us as parents have had a child who promised to do something which we told them to do, but never did. They may have explained away their failure…
You and I have always heard it called “the parable of the workers (laborers) in the vineyard,” but this title assumes that the workers are the focus of the parable.…
Except in the first year of a new president’s term, the President of the United States speaks to the Senate and the House of Representatives in a joint session of…
Jesus began the parable by telling us that a certain king decided one day “to settle accounts with his servants” (v. 23) One particular servant is brought to the king…