In 1968, I was 13 years old and living where I grew up in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. One summer day my mom sent me to Puglia's Supermarket to buy a $100 money order for her.

On my way to that store, seven men, all about 18 years old or so, jum...

"Hatred stirs up strife,” (Proverbs 10:12a)

WOW! Could there be a better verse for a week like this last one in the USA? All across the USA unscrupulous professional “race baiters” (those who keep promoting the racist idea that the thing that is most...

Join me for a little journey today.

Jesus said something curious once: “…you have the poor with you always…” (Matthew 26:11a).

At first glance, this quote might make it seem as if Jesus didn’t care about the poor…those who lacked. However, we know He h...

Some would say that because there is a pandemic afoot we should behave in certain ways in how we deal with our fellow man.

I disagree.

We are called upon to practice something the culture has labelled “social distancing”. I’ve tried for several years t...

I can't turn it off. I can't turn it off - this thing inside me that cares about people.

I can't turn it off.

The unsettled roiling in the souls of people I know...unsettles me too.

I ache. My heart aches today.

I can't turn it off.

This is true of any...

(This teaching was given at Hope Church in Rhome, TX on Sunday, March 8, 2020. Special thanks go to Pastor Jonathan Splawn for inviting me to speak.)

What would you say is the most well-known “eternal life” verse maybe in the whole world? It even show...

I read the following verses this morning and just closed my eyes and sighed because we can see those verses being played out all around us. I felt discouraged and sad.

“There is a generation that curses its father, and does not bless its mother. There...

“And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written: ‘After this I will return and will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will set it up; so that the rest of mankind may seek the...

One important principle of Bible study is that if God says something one time, it is important and true. If He says it twice, it is VERY important. If He says something multiple times, it is something He considers to be crucial that we believe, rece...

The setting is a synagogue in a place called Antioch in Pisidia. Paul and Barnabas are on what many call “Paul’s First Missionary Journey”. They have been invited to speak and Paul has stood up and is delivering a speech. He has just shown that Jesus...