Lift Up Your Eyes By Tim Moore “Lift up your eyes and look to the heavens...” - (Isaiah 40:26 NIV) Since the late 1950s, mankind has reached for the heavens. Fulfilling an ancient aspiration, we left the ground in lighter-than-air balloons beginning in the 1800s, then achieved manned flight early…
The Power of Prayer By Randy Nettles Are you old enough to remember the popular song entitled “What the World Needs Now is Love,” or maybe you’ve heard it in a commercial? It was a hit song that came out in 1965. The music was composed by Burt Bacharach with…
Money Problems By David L. Goetsch Few challenges in the Christian life are more difficult than gaining a Biblical perspective on money. Frankly, the cards are stacked against us in this endeavor. To gain the kind of perspective on money that honors God, we have to overcome a lot of…
Self Control By David L. Goetsch Does it seem to you self-control and personal restraint are missing in contemporary society? Lack of self-control is a factor in such tragedies as road rage, workplace violence, mass shootings, and sideline rage. It is also the main cause of Internet flaming. All of…
Feeling Unloved By David L. Goetsch Have you ever felt unloved? Have you ever felt as if no one cares about you or you aren’t important to anyone? Perhaps you feel this way now; a lot of people do. When you think no one loves you, feelings of rejection, emptiness,…
Heaven’s Unfathomable Riches By Terry James A couple of commentaries ago, I announced my great friend Bob Rogers going to our Heavenly home and how he is now enjoying things beyond which we can imagine. Today we share with you through tears comforted by joyful knowledge that she is alive…
Questions With Everlasting Consequences By Mike Gendron Our great God and Savior spent His entire earthly ministry proclaiming the Gospel of salvation. In His mission to seek and to save the lost, our Lord asked 339 questions that are recorded in the Gospels. Christ's example of asking questions is a…
Taking Out The Garbage By Grant Phillips A lot of guys don’t like taking out the garbage. As for me, I like seeing it gone. As soon as it starts accumulating, I round it up and get it to the outside garbage container. We have made a habit of putting…
Spiritual Warfare in the Culture War By Ed Vitagliano It is clear that America is in the midst of a moral, political, and cultural upheaval that rivals that of the 1960s – or perhaps even the Civil War era. Furthermore, a Christian would have to be totally devoid of discernment…
Don’t Worry About Nothin’ By Grant Phillips My wife and I have always enjoyed watching the Rocky movies, specifically the first four. We were watching Rocky II one evening and I happened to realize that Rocky had quoted part of a Bible verse. Rocky was saying goodbye to his newborn…