As Light As Pink

You’re probably familiar with the statement written by the prophet Isaiah, in which he said, “Come let us reason together, though your sins be like scarlet, they shall be light as pink.” … No, that’s not what Isaiah said, though one might think he did by the way some Christians act. No, what Isaiah said …

Survey Says…

A recent survey conducted by the Barna Group asked “Practicing Christian Millennials” (people born between 1981-1996 or to say it this way, 23 to 38 year old’s) if they knew what the “Great Commission” was. The results were shocking. Only 10% of these “Practicing Christian Millennials” knew what the Great Commission was. The great commission …

My First Lesson In Hermeneutics

My first lesson in hermeneutics came when I was about 8-years-old in Citizen’s Drug Store in Chester, WV. I had stopped in the drugstore on my way home from school to buy some bubble gum and opposite the bubble gum, in the same aisle, was a “Tonka truck.” When I was a boy, I never …

Before You Move

Have you ever considered that possibly the most common reason causing a preacher to move may be the very reason he ought to stay? Is it not because of persecution, false-doctrine, and ungodliness within the church that many preachers decide to move and preach elsewhere? I’ve been a preacher for 34 years and have many …

If You Love Me, Come Away

In 1843, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a short story entitled, “The New Adam and Eve.” In this short story, Hawthorne imagined the earth without any people. The works of man and infrastructure built by mankind still stood, but mankind was gone. This was the new “Garden of Eden” wherein God placed the new “Adam and Eve.” …