Today is a special day in my homeland… for more than one reason. First, it is my dear wife’s birthday. I love her and I am glad that we have been able to celebrate another birthday together on this earth. However, this post is mostly about the second reason for my post. This is July…
“If everyone in the world suddenly decided to become homosexuals, would humanity survive?“ That “is” the question that simply identifies a logical issue in our time… and the answer is “no,” by the way. We must also assume that a homosexual couple would adhere strictly to the notion that two people of the same gender…
In January of 2009, Ralph Nicholas – my dad – left this world to join his dad in heaven. Dad had fought a long battle with cancer and survived many years longer than his doctors first considered possible. Today, as I write this article, I hope to shed a little light upon his life and…
Brothers and sisters… please read this prayerfully. How often do you cry or pray for the nations? How often do we listen to “their” cries? I fear that in America, we have (generally) gotten so absorbed by how we do church that we have forgotten what it is like to be the Church. We are…
Sometimes, it is hard to clearly hear the voice of God in this life. Maybe you can relate to this situation… this distraction… this encumbrance to following God in pure child-like faith. Maybe you have never tried. I can honestly tell you that there are times that it seems as if God is very very…
That is the question, isn’t it? You wake up in the morning and begin the daily routine. Often, life is like a never-ending, bumpy airplane ride locked-in to autopilot. We (at times) seem like mindless robots wandering though this world… never thinking about the world to come. The devil has successfully placed spiritual blinders over…
I am sure that you have heard the old adage, “Be careful, it’s a jungle out there.” That is such a true statement… for many reasons. Life can sometimes seem like an old Tarzan movie. You are the strong man… whacking your way through the underbrush, watching out for the dangers that lurk around every…
How do you deal with life when it gets all bunched up, boiling with stress or uncertainty? As the photo above indicates, some people use mind-numbing substances to cope… beer or hard liquor or drugs. It is interesting to note that these beer cans were laying in front of our local missions building. I saw…
Over the last couple of months, I have been involved with helping to coordinate a service project. A prerequisite for graduating from Union University is to serve the community through an approved service project. Our cohort discussed a few alternatives and decided to do something for the Dream Center of Jackson, TN. As of this…