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Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin!  There, I said it seven times to prove that my head would not explode, that lightening would not immediately strike me, nor would I melt like the wicked witch of the West in Wizard of Oz upon saying it.  I noted in my previous post, the aversion to […]

There is an event that occurs every two years in this nation, in which men and women vie for positions of power from which to govern our nation, states, cities and municipalities. We call them elections. For the months and weeks leading to the elections we endure multi-media ads, mostly on TV and through mailings,

Christians throughout the last 1800-2000 years have trusted the Bible as the inerrant, fully reliable, gracious, God breathed revelation of His truth (2 Timothy 3:16-17), which it is.  However, there have been variations in translations and in a small number of texts, words and phrases, that how caused some to question this.  Experts in Bible

In my cellphone contact list, I have the names and numbers of those whom I regularly have contact with, family and friends, businesses and business acquaintances. These names and numbers show up on my phone when I receive calls from them, or I am calling them.  The person I am happily married to is listed

In John 17 we have Jesus, nearing the end in of His three-and- a-half-year ministry on earth, engaging in that which He engaged in most while in this world, namely prayer, prayer to His Father in Heaven, to whom He also taught us to pray (Matthew 6:8-13). Jesus typically removed Himself from the crowds to

In my previous post I began looking at (and for) the evidences of the true Christian’s love for the unseen Christ as presented in the book of the same title by Puritan author, Thomas Vincent.  In today’s post I will look at the evidence of our love for Christ being displayed in our passionate pursuit

The Reverend Billy Graham once asked this telling question: If you were arrested for being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you? Early in his book, The True Christian’s Love to the Unseen Christ, Thomas Vincent addresses that same concern when he laments that many proclaim a love for Christ yet exhibit

In my high school Civics class, there was a girl; no not a girl, a young woman, and not just a young woman, but the most beautiful, most vibrant, most attractive being I had ever seen in my young life.  She was, to use Bible terminology, lovely in form and appearance.  My heart was not

It seems strange and even disturbing to some people that the eternal God, the infinitely good, infinitely wise, infinitely powerful, creator and sovereign ruler of the universe and all that is in it, who reveals Himself in the person and work of Jesus Christ, would command men, women and children alike to love Him with

I have been addressing the preeminent and great commandment given to us by the eternal, holy, just and good God who created all things, particularly man, for His glory. It is the commandment that a person must obey if they are to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, namely, the commandment to love God with all