We live in a current church climate that has a certain allergy against any concept of the word hate. Perhaps a lot of it comes from a proper observation of the fact that hate is often dangerous and all-consuming. We tend to see all hatred as negative or perhaps even evil, but it’s not. What do you think? Is there still, as there was in the days the writer of Ecclesiastes lived, “A time to hate.”? ...  Read More

 In 1 Samuel 7:12, Samuel the prophet set up a stone and named it “Ebenezer” between Mizpah and Shen. The name means a, “Stone of help.” It was a visual reminder of God’s faithfulness to Israel. Each time those who knew what it meant passed by it they could see it and be reminded, perhaps even transported back to the day they planted it like a song, to recall some work of God. Samuel is not at all...  Read More

In all that we study and meditate on regarding the life to come I think I’ve been reminded this week of something that, although difficult to imagine how, is easy to overlook or marginalize, and that’s life itself as we are currently to live it.     God has given us this world in its beauty. We know how Scripture repeats the refrain that it was “good” all throughout its first week. Sin has since r...  Read More

“Epaphras, who is one of your number, a bondslave of Jesus Christ, sends you his greetings, always laboring earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God,” Colossians 4:12. In about AD 62, the Christians in Colosse received Paul’s letter addressed to them from Rome, Italy by the hands of Tychicus and Onesimus. They had never met St. Paul hims...  Read More

Parents, love your kids. This is a high calling, and may God bless you by it as you bless Him in it.     The following excerpt is from the book, “Missionary Patriarch: The True Story of John G. Paton.”     With all my heart I encourage you to go and listen to John Piper’s biography on Paton entitled, “You Will Be Eaten by Cannibals! Lessons from the Life of John G. Paton.” This is part of a whole ...  Read More

 “And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful,” Colossians 3:15.      Many times I’ve been asked, “Do I have to go to church to be a Christian?” The answer isn’t really as simple as “yes” or “no.” Now of course God’s irresistible grace is not limited to where one hears it or even who delivers it audibly. God has saved men in every venue ...  Read More