Max Lucado (pastor and author) always hits the ball out of the park. Consider his daily devotional, God Is With You Every Day. The entry for August 5 is entitled "No Other God!"

"Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool . . . My hand made all things.
All thing...

Remember the children's song, "When we all pull together, how happy we’ll be"? There is power in Unity.

The story is told of a horse pull in Canada. One horse pulled 9,000 pounds; another pulled 8,000. Together you would expect them to pull 17,000 pounds.

Not so! When t...

Our Wednesday Bible study a few weeks ago (July 8) from 2 Corinthians 12 was about how our weakness demonstrates God’s strength (v7-10). Receive the following beautiful truth that applies to that same passage.

One day the great London preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon (...

Are you choosing to give thanks in every situation?

The Apostle Paul instructs us to "give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus" (1 Thessalonians 5:18).

Are you able to be thankful during Coronavirus social distancing and quarantin...

How do we as Christians dialog with those who have a very different, if not antagonistic, viewpoint?

It is tempting to either argue or be silent, but neither response is helpful. Here are wise words from Scott Sauls entitled "Loving Others at their Worst" from a Devotio...

On Saturday our country will celebrate its 244th birthday. What a tremendous heritage of freedom! America has been a symbol of liberty for the oppressed of the world.

The foundation that made this country great is a spiritual one. Though many revisionists have tried to...

As mentioned previously, I am reading Max Lucado's daily devotional, "God Is With You Every Day," every morning along with my Bible and prayer time. These are his thoughts from yesterday, June 22.

The One Who Hears the Prayer

"And when you pray, don't be like those peopl...

June is the month when we celebrate weddings, graduations and dads. It is the latter I would like us to consider in honor of Father's Day coming up this Sunday. I think you will enjoy this amusing story.

A young father-to-be was pacing back and forth, wringing his hands...

Max Lucado is one of my favorite authors and Bible teachers. He shares this dramatic true story in his book, Dad Time.

The 1989 Armenian earthquake needed only four minutes to flatten the nation and kill thirty thousand people.

Moments after the deadly tremor ceased, a...

Corrie ten Boom was a Dutch Christian who, along with her family, sheltered Jews during the Holocaust. They were eventually caught and most of her family died in, or as a result of, prison camp. Corrie was miraculously spared and later wrote the book, The Hiding Place.

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An exciting and emotional reunion took place at this year’s State of the Union address on February 4.

A Fort Bragg soldier surprised his wife and two young children Tuesday night by appearing in the audience of President Donald Trump's State of the Union address.

Amy Wil...

In 1974, Chuck Colson, a former top aide to President Nixon, voluntarily pled guilty to obstruction of justice on a Watergate-related charge and served seven months in Alabama's Maxwell Prison.

In his best-selling memoir, Born Again, Chuck wrote, "I found myself increas...

One of my favorite Bible teachers right now is Max Lucado. This year I’m reading his daily devotional, God Is With You Every Day. Here are Max's thoughts from May 8, entitled "Chosen Children".

"But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become c...

One of my favorite features in the Mid-Week newspaper that is mailed to most homes here on Oahu is "News of the Weird". The March 18, 2020 edition featured this story.

For two whole years, Caelie Wilkes nurtured a lovely green succulent (includes the cactus family) in h...

Who do you look like? Your mom or your dad?

The Christian life is the process of becoming more like Jesus Christ!

People often ask: “What is God’s will for my life?” We usually think in terms of who we should marry, where we should live, what job we should have.

Those are...