According to a CNBC report, the Halloween season is ranked seventh in the amount spent on gifts, food, travel, costumes, parties, etc., with approximately 10.4 billion forked over in 2021. And that is only in the United States!
The British writer and feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft, wrote in her 1792 treatise “Convince a man against his will, He’s of the same opinion still.”
Have you committed the “unpardonable sin?” Have you committed the one sin that God will not forgive? So many people worry themselves into this dark hole from which there sometimes seems no way out. It is the source of their doubt. So, how can one know whether they have committed this sin?
For many years I doubted that I was really a child of God. It was a tortuous time. For those of you caught in doubt, you know what I mean.
When I was a junior in high school the Key Club I belonged to sponsored a “Mess America” pageant. The idea was simple. Club members, who were all male, dressed up as women and in an attempt to be funny as the “contestants” paraded on stage in various outrageous styles of feminine dress…
My oldest son, Steve, is a contractor. As such he oversees a lot of renovations on people’s houses. Every once in a while, he will come across a house that the owner wants to refurbish but after looking it over, Steve will tell him the sad news…this house is not worth the time or money. The only option is to tear it down and start over….
Friend, how do you react when you are faced with a situation that seems difficult or maybe even impossible?
Did you know that if you are a child of God He has but one goal for your life? Contrary to popular Christian culture, it is not to make you happy. It is not to keep you healthy or make you wealthy. His purpose for your life is not even to make you a better person…
Do you have hope? Before you answer let me explain what I mean by hope…
How in the world can a wretched, sinful, conniving pile of dust such as we humans stand in confidence before a holy, righteous, perfect, and powerful God? This God cannot be fooled!
It would be safe to say that all of us have humiliated ourselves at one time or another. I remember one time I said an unkind word about a classmate of mine my junior year in high school only to realize that she was sitting right behind me…
I would like to make a very bold statement. No matter what you believe about Jesus Christ now, someday you will acknowledge Him as Lord of all (Philippians 2:10-11). The choice you have is whether you will do this from heaven or hell.
I have prayed for a lot of things, circumstances, and people over the years, as I’m sure you have, too. Some of my prayers have been short and intense, like the time an oncoming car swerved into our path one winter coming back from Rockland…
For those of you men who are older I’m sure you remember what it was like when your father said, “meet me in the woodshed.” You knew immediately that it was not to stack wood because you had just disobeyed your dad in some way and the “board of education” was about to be applied to “the seat of knowledge”.
Friend, how do want to finish your life? Nobody wants to end their life in disgrace or failure. But is there a higher goal in the Christian life than to keep our noses clean? Can we look forward to more than a sigh of relief that we made it?
