How good is your hearing? Have you ever taken one of those hearing tests where they check each ear individually and then both ears together? How about your kids? Have you ever noticed how their hearing isn’t too good when you ask them to do something they don’t want to do? [Read more…]
Even though I’m getting older, I can still remember some things. Mainly useless trivia or unimportant things. But some important things that I should remember are just gone. Sometimes I just can’t retrieve the information. This gets very frustrating at times. On the other hand, sometimes I dwell on past mistakes too much. Sometimes I carry around burdens that I should have let go of a long time ago. [Read more…]
A Christian apolgist is someone who defends Christianity. The base word is apologia, which is a greek word that means defense. So people that say they are Christian apologists are defenders of the faith. [Read more…]
Let’s start the new year off right. Let’s assign blame where it truly belongs, god is to blame for all the evil and all the bad stuff in this world! The little g god is to blame. The Bible is very clear that the little god of this world is Satan. 2 Corinthians 4:4 states, “In whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.” [Read more…]
When I was around 7 or 8 years old, I wanted a BB gun really bad. I was ecstatic when I opened that present that year. Up to that point in my life, that was the best present a boy could open on Christmas morning (and yes, I got into a lot of trouble with that BB gun). [Read more…]
Is it easy for you to forgive someone who has wronged you? Really done you wrong? Treated you badly? Someone who did you harm?
I’m asking these questions because we have all treated God wrongly (whether we know it or not; whether we acknowledge it or not). [Read more…]
I don’t know about you, but I look forward to Thanksgiving Day. I look forward to eating turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy and there is usually wonderful desert (even though I don’t like pumpkin pie, the rest of my family loves it). [Read more…]
Have you ever wrestled with someone when you were younger and after they had you in a choke hold or a body hold they made you say uncle before they would quit (it was usually a brother, an uncle or a friend)? When I was a kid, I used to wrestle with my uncle who was several years older than me and he was much stronger than I was. We’d start off wrestling and it would be fun at first. [Read more…]
Kids face unbelievable temptations today such as drugs, alcohol, sex, sexting, pornography, t.v., movies and peer pressure to name a few. So how do you protect your children? How do you become proactive instead of reactive in parenting? What does it look like to parent God’s way? [Read more…]
Prior to establishing a publishing company, my wife Polly and I were in the mortgage business for 25 years, including building an office from the ground up starting in 1994. [Read more…]