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Religion

  • Where are you in love of the truth?

    By Austin Echols

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  • Universal truths about children of divorce

    Two things I can tell you about children whose parents divorce. If your marriage has already died and the divorce is final then you may be reading this too late. It is not meant to add another burden of guilt upon that which you may already be carrying. Perhaps it may help you realize what you have been facing is not out of the norm for the children of divorce.

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  • He died for me

    Mel Gibson’s  movie, The Passion of Christ, covered the last 12 hours of Jesus’ earthly life. It is not a movie I would watch for entertainment value, but I would watch it for love value.
    “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son …” (John 3:16). God gave Jesus because He loved us.  The trial and death of Jesus shows us how much He loved us.
    Jesus came to die on the cross for our sin. Though we were not there 2,000 years ago, our sins killed Jesus just the same.

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  • A lesson on faith from Titanic survivors

    By Joseph Cooper

    “But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth” (Acts 1:8).
    Our focus in this study is on “witnesses.”  The Titanic will help make the main point of our study as we conclude.

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  • Love can make you sick

    A verse in the King James Version of the Bible, written in 1611, shows us how language has changed over the past 400 years. It says, “Comfort me . . . for I am sick of love” (Song of Solomon 5:8).
    There have been times when I was so tired of hearing about the crushes of my college roommates that I wanted to say I was getting sick of hearing about ‘your’ love episodes. The verse really means the writer was ‘love sick.’ At least that is how we would say it today.

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  • Honoring Mom

    Sunday is Mother’s Day in the United States, and for most it will be a very special day.
    Telephone companies tell us it is their busiest day of the year.  It is a day for remembering, for greetings and expressions of love.
    Your mother may have been gone for many years, but there are still sounds and sights and smells of home, of screen doors banging in the summer time, and the aroma of those fresh baked biscuits right out of the oven that greeted you as you got out of bed in the morning.

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  • Steps toward stress-free living

    We would all agree that we are living in stress-full times. The threat of terrorism added to living in this technical age results in stress on every side. Many people endure life with many others living a joyous life.
    Paul’s words to the Philippians gives us some steps for managing stress and having joy in our lives (4:4-8). ”Rejoice in the Lord always” (4:4). Is this possible? Listen to Paul’s strategy.

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  • A family council-part 1

    Whether you are a unit of just two, or you have been blessed with many more, this communication method helps weather storms of difference and even defiance. This simple tool for discovering resolutions to quarrels may be especially true if there are teenagers in the house who have begun to test the limits and patience of their parents.

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  • Bitter or better: You decide

    Have you heard that troubles will make you bitter or better? We decide which it will be.
    Blessings and difficulties come to us all.  How we respond to the things that come into our lives is very important. Our response  reveals our character.  We all can smile in the sunshine, but trouble reveals our true inner selves.
    At best, we should let our problems bring us closer to God. When a child gets hurt, he turns to his parents for help.  God loves and cares for us more than even our parents.

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  • Is your silence golden or yellow?

    A plaque hung in my junior high school boys’ locker room which read, “It is better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” This is a paraphrase of both Proverbs 13:16 & 17:28. There is a time to speak up and there are times when wisdom counsels us to keep our mouths shut.
    It often is difficult to know which is the proper route to take. You must decide in each case what to do without blaming me for your decision.

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