It is ironic to consider that Jesus required more than the legalistic Pharisees and yet His way was easier. How could this be? The Pharisees required the performance of certain things without giving consideration to whether these external actions were motivated by hearts given over to God. They were more...

“O how I love Thy law! It is my meditation all the day” (Psalm 119:97). Would you agree with the inspired poet? The Bible is the only book that God ever wrote. No other piece of literature is as relevant, interesting, compelling, or powerful. God’s Book teaches us what is right, what...

All men need God’s leadership. Without it, men are doomed: “There is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death” (Proverbs 14:12). “O Lord, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man that walketh to...

William Shakespeare is regarded as the greatest writer in the English language. Four hundred years after Shakespeare’s death, every school student still studies his life and works. However, when Shakespeare’s daughter, Judith, married, she signed her license with a mark—the equivalence of an “X.” Scholars believe that neither she nor...

John F. Kennedy once stated, “The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it.” This statement is true for the United States from the “shot heard ‘round the world” near Old North Bridge at Concord, Massachusetts, the modern weapons of war that threaten soldiers serving in...

“Do you ever feel like you are being watched?” The question has been asked in countless novels & Hollywood productions (usually by a character who is about to be the victim of an attempted attack). Call it paranoia; call it premonition; call it perception; whatever you call it, most are...

My dad always said I was like my mom: I never met a stranger. I used to ask my youngest daughter when she was around twelve if she wanted to go to the store with me. She would reply, “Only if you don’t talk to people.” She knew I just...

That there is one and only one God can be proved. That the Bible is the Word of God can be proved. That the Bible teaches that there is one and only one God, one Lord, one Spirit, one faith, one baptism, one body, and one hope is made clear...