by Roger Caudill | Jul 18, 2024 | Article
Left to our own devices, we tend to lie to ourselves. We deceive ourselves into hearing what we want to hear, doing what is pleasing to our senses, and pursuing what makes us feel happy. When we seek to live by God’s wisdom, we say to our emotions;...
by Edward Thal | Jul 16, 2024 | Article
A shepherd of God’s people is a living testimony to the reality of God. Sunday sermons are only one aspect of the larger sermon that is the outworking of the Life of God in a pastor’s life and in the life of his family. He is “known and read by all men” as an object...
by Roger Caudill | Jul 11, 2024 | Article
God has given each person an internal moral compass. The conscience can be a powerful inner voice that helps guide our behavior, but it can also be beaten into silence so that it no longer warns us that what we are about to do is wrong. The best way to...
by Edward Thal | Jul 9, 2024 | Article
The old idiom says that every cloud has a silver lining. But when the “bad weather” of life’s trials come your way, what do you see—the storm clouds or the silver lining? It may be true for some people that there are few silver linings in their circumstances,...
by Roger Caudill | Jul 2, 2024 | Article
Joseph suddenly lost everything—his family, his home, his freedom (Genesis 37). We can only imagine how stunned and rejected he felt when his brothers sold him into slavery, and he was taken to Egypt. Life is like that at times. Sudden changes usher us...
by Edward Thal | Jul 2, 2024 | Article
The gift of salvation is transformative – it makes “all things new” (2 Corinthians 5:17). Yet this marvelous restoration of what God intended for us in the beginning, before sin entered the human heart, cannot be fully appreciated when it is first experienced because...
