The school year is already over for a lot of students and some only have a few days left (like my youngest daughter). So most students have taken their finals already. If you are a student how did you do? Did you get 100% on every final exam? Did you pass every test without missing a single point? [Read more…]
I recently went out witnessing with some of the guys with Born of Him Ministries at Nixa Sucker Days (no they don’ think the customers are suckers, it is named this because they deep fry fish). We carried a sign with us that said, “Can we pray for you?” Yes we got a few strange looks and a few laughs but several people took us up on the offer to pray for them! I want to thank Carl with Bezeugen Ministries for the idea.
Carla MacLachlan, author of Parenting Moment by Moment recently posted the following question on facebook: True or False: If you are following Jesus and your child is watching you all day then he is learning what it looks like to follow Jesus? [Read more…]
Some friends and I were talking about a Christian book the other day, Parenting Moment by Moment. We were denied permission to sell the book at a large mall because it might be considered controversial or offensive. I was asking people if Christianity was offensive to them. One guy said well if it is an extremist book, then it may be offensive. [Read more…]
Ray Comfort with Way of the Master says that God is not subject to time; God made time for man (paraphrased). I’ve been thinking about this and a couple of Bible verses come to mind. [Read more…]
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…]
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…]
I was watching a guy on youtube the other day and he said that he was going to follow Socrates. What in the world was he talking about?
He went on to say that he didn’t believe in God or Jesus, so he was going to believe in Socrates. Socrates was a wise person and he was going to follow him. He said that Socrates never said that you had to believe everything he said or you would end up in Hell. That is true. Socrates never said that. But Socrates wasn’t the Son of God. Socrates was a mere mortal like you and me. Socrates didn’t always speak the truth and only the truth. Socrates sometimes gave us his opinion. [Read more…]
Was Jesus politically correct? Do you think Jesus took any sensitivity training classes? Did He need to? Is Jesus politically correct today?
To answer these questions, let’s take a look at some of the actions Jesus took as well as some of the things Jesus said to the religious leaders more than 2,000 years ago. Jesus drove out the buyers and sellers at the temple and He overturned the money changer’s tables at the temple (Matt. 21:12). Jesus also called the religious leaders of His day hypocrites and blind guides! (Matt. 23:13-16). Jesus hung out with prostitutes, tax collectors and sinners (Matt. 11:19). (This doesn’t mean Jesus condoned their behavior. In fact the Bible points out in several places that a lot of these sinners changed their ways after encountering Jesus). [Read more…]
