Another Aside About Education

Kids deserve respect. For a lot of them, though, they do not understand that teachers deserve respect, too. And respect is not something that we have to earn in this life. For a substitute teacher, though, an instructor has to fight to command respect in the...

Identify with Christ Your Life

I believe that many youth and young adults are lost and frustrated. We are called to depend on God, yet at the same time the world sends the message that we are on our own, that we are expected to take care of things for ourselves. No message could be more mixed, more...

How Do You Read Your Bible?

Do you read the Bible hoping to learn something to share with someone? Do you read your Bible in order to learn what you must do? Do you read your Bible in order to maintain some sense of "Holiness"? I used the read Bible the last way. Just read my...

Itching Ears — What's Paul Talking About?

1I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom; 2Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine. 3For the time...

"Judge Not" Has Become "Judge Righteous Judgment"

1Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine...