Have you ever considered how it is that the message of Jesus is alive today?  I’ve said before on this blog that my faith is in an event that I believe took place nearly 2000 years ago: the resurrection of Christ.  It’s the basis of Christianity.  If the event didn’t take place, then everything that Christians believe is worthless.  Over the years, we have moved away from ... [Continue Reading]

When a person gives his or her life to Christ, he becomes a new creation.  The thing that he once was, he is no longer - the desires she once had are gone.  I'll never forget when my favorite childhood baseball player, Orel Hershiser, switched from the Dodgers to the Indians.  It was a great day for me because I lived in Ohio, and now I had a reason to support the team ... [Continue Reading]

As little children we learn to manipulate.  One of the amusing examples that I’ve seen is when my niece or nephew asks my brother for something and doesn’t get the desired result, he or she then goes to their mom to see if the outcome might be more in their favor.  I’m not sure anyone taught them how to be manipulative, but as fallen human beings, these things seem to crop ... [Continue Reading]

There is no devotional reading for today.  The time between Malachi (the final prophet of the Old Testament) and John the Baptist was about 400 years.  In that period of silence, the nation of Israel wondered where God was and what He was doing.  It's interesting that the greatest period of silence was also the period wherein God was preparing to do His greatest ... [Continue Reading]

The book of Nahum is really about hope for the people of Nineveh and how they have run out of time to repent and return to God.  Jonah was sent with a message for them a century and a half before Nahum's words were written, but Nineveh did not heed the warning and was now staring down the face of certain judgment.  It's at this point that you might think, "But God is a god ... [Continue Reading]