by Roger Caudill | Jul 30, 2024 | Article
The circumstances of modern life may cause feelings of depression and loneliness—ten minutes of watching the evening news can do that to you! Here’s a thought that might help to lift the gloom. In the darkest moment of world history—the crucifixion,...
by Edward Thal | Jul 23, 2024 | Article
You appoint yourself in His place! After years of assigning God to the margins of society an impulse to self-deification seems to be the response of increasing numbers of our fellow citizens who have established a new home-grown religion complete with priests (the...
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,...
