March 2020

The COVID-19 panic-demic continues, with about 7,000 fatalities globally and 85 in America. There is plenty of good news in the midst of the COVID-19 panic-demic,    * COVID-19 is still a small thing compared to influenza, which has infected 36 to 51 million, hospitalized about one-half million and killed 22,000 and 55,000 in America alone since October (“Influenza […]

Psalm 111:10 “The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do His commandments: His praise endureth for ever.” Back pain is one of humanity’s most common complaints. And the most common explanation one hears for back pain is that our backs hurt because we stand and

Psalm 148:3 “Praise ye Him, sun and moon: praise Him, all ye stars of light.” Our moon is moving away from the earth at the rate of four centimeters per year. That might not seem like much. However, that rate of movement away from the earth presents problems for those who believe the earth and

Rock & roll loving Steven Furtick of Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, says that what this generation needs is not more rules to live by, but a calling to live for (“Charlotte Pastor,” The Christian Post, Nov. 26, 2010). This is typical emerging church philosophy. In reality, what youth need is both a call to real discipleship and biblical

Psalm 19:1 “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork.” Two rocks float through silent space, unaware that they will soon cause a scientific debate millions of miles away on earth. On earth these two small asteroids added together may weigh only a few hundred pounds. However, the conclusions that

“Posture Shift is a ‘gay Christianity’ Conference held by a ministry called Lead Them Home that seeks to change how the church views homosexuality and pushes for full inclusivity of gays, lesbians, and other sexually-confused individuals such as ‘transgenders.’ Many of the Posture Shift speakers and team overlap with the Revoice Conference and one conference

Exodus 2:3 “And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.” Few people realize that the Bible actually speaks of not one Ark but

The apostle Paul was a fighter. His bodily presence might have been weak, as his enemies claimed (2 Co. 10:10), but he was a special forces-caliber warrior for truth. On the very first stop of his first historic missionary journey, he called out a prominent member of Salamis with these shocking words, “O full of

Genesis 1:12 “And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.” As a boy, I liked to watch the coal being unloaded from the railway wagons at the power station sidings.

The global panic surrounding the coronavirus outbreak is breathtaking in its overreaction. Two nations quarantined. Major events cancelled in areas where there is no coronavirus! Airlines going bankrupt. Hotels vacated. Borders locked down. Stock markets plummeting. (Warren Buffett says it’s time to invest!) One would think it is the bubonic plague, but it isn’t. COVID-19, the virus

Luke 19:4 “And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass  that way.” I grew up in a house surrounded by a sycamore wood. Perhaps 50 percent of the trees were sycamores. I loved these fascinating trees. I was taught that Zacchaeus (who was a very

Recently I received the following question: “I’ve always wondered about this question, can a child repent? I asked Jesus to come into my heart when I was seven. I can’t recall repentance. I recall saying that I knew I was a sinner, but I don’t recall any turning back. So am I not saved? There