Who do you love? A spouse, a child, a friend? What do you love? What consumes your thoughts and your dreams? What consumes your time, energy and money? What do you love the most in this world? Who do you love in this world, more than anyone else? Who has your heart? Who or what do you truly love? [Read more…]
I was witnessing at MSU last year and a young lady came up to me and said if I thought they were going to be held more responsible on Judgment Day because they heard and rejected the Gospel, wouldn’t she have been better off if I wasn’t there witnessing to her. For some reason, God keeps bringing this to my mind and all I keep thinking about is: there is no air-conditioning in Hell and there are no plush suites in Hell. Hell is Hell. So is it fair that unrepentant sinners go there when they die? Is it fair? [Read more…]
How good is your vision? When is the last time that you had your eyes tested? I have worn glasses since I was in the fourth grade (a long, long time ago). I was shocked back then when I put on my first pair of glasses and I could actually read the restaurant and gas station signs along the street. Without my glasses, I could only see the vague shape of the sign and I couldn’t even begin to read the signs. Now 40 years later I have 20/20 vision – with my glasses on. [Read more…]
Kids want to be independent from their parents. Many workers want to be independent from their boss or their companies. In America, many people want to be a “self-made man.” We want to do things on our own. We are independent people. Most of us want to be independent from something. What do you want independence from? [Read more…]
“You are a joke! Don’t you know that everyone’s laughing at you? Nobody wants you here. You are pushing people away from God. Nobody is listening.” These are just some of the comments that a very loud and very irate woman made last Friday night while several of us were open-air preaching on the square. She was very aggressive. She spewed forth her questions with venom. I kept asking her if she had been drinking, but she wouldn’t answer the question. (By the way, how can it be that I was pushing people away from God and nobody listening; both at the same time? If they weren’t listening, how could I have pushed them away?) [Read more…]
Some people can remember most of what they read and see. In fact, some people even have a photographic memory. I am not one of them. I have a hard time remembering what I ate for lunch yesterday. But other people remember everything in great detail. Albert Mohler is the president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He doesn’t have a photographic memory, but it’s pretty close to one. He reads several different newspapers every day and then he talks about the most important issues for about 15 or 20 minutes. He does this every morning, Monday through Friday and he does The Briefing without a script. He truly has an amazing memory. [Read more…]
When you get ready to graduate from high school, you plan and prepare for your future. You decide if you are going to work or go to college. If you plan on going right to work, you start thinking about what kind of work you want to do. You check into it. You see if you are qualified to start in that field right away or if you have to go through some kind of training. [Read more…]
According to a Harris Poll taken in December 2013, 74% of Americans believe in God. That number used to be over 90% per a Gallup poll in June 2011. So the number of Americans that believe in God has dropped a little bit, but around three-fourths of us still believe in God. How about you tonight, do you believe in God? Again, the majority of us probably would say that we do. [Read more…]
We are Americans. We are the land of the free and the home of the brave. We are independent people. We don’t want anyone to tell us what to do. We like to be in charge. We want to be on our own. We want to do what we want, when we want, where we want. That’s the American way. But tonight I want to ask you: Who do you serve? [Read more…]
I asked a 17 year old young man the other day what punishment he thought Craig Michael Wood should receive for kidnapping and doing unspeakable things to and then killing 10 year old Hailey Owens. He said that he didn’t know much about it, but that he thought the guy should spend a really long time in prison. Then he said that he actually thought that people should receive the same punishment as the crime that they commit. The perpetrator should be kidnapped, abused and then killed. So I said “you believe in an eye for an eye justice” and he said that’s what he believes. [Read more…]