St. John Chrysostom declares "Be ashamed when you sin, not when you repent." I can't tell you how many times I've had people confide in me that they don't go to confession because they are ashamed. What a brilliant trick of the evil one! The very medicine that would cure your heart sickness is the…
What is it about close relationships that either blind you or enlighten you? What I mean is, I’ve known folks who were so close to someone else that they were absolutely blind to that other person’s faults. I’ve seen it get so bad that the two people were so enmeshed with each other that they…
It was an old suit, but I loved it! It had both sentimental value and the added benefit of actually fitting me! But my dear bride said it had to go! Sure, it had a few stains but I thought they were hard to see. Yes, there was a tear inside the jacket, but I…
Just finished preparing a great program for tonight at 8 PM Eastern with Hank Hanegraaff! https://www.ancientfaith.com/radio/live
Guess who's recording a NEW Faith Encouraged LIVE Show today? Yep, yours truly and my special guest Hank Hanegraaff of the Christian Research Institute and the Bible Answer Man broadcast.
Details coming soon when you can hear it! FaithEncouraged.org
In World War 1 the two opposing armies would dig in and conduct what was then called "trench warfare." The land between the two armies entrenched for the fight was called "no man's land" because anybody who tried to attack would be shot by the other side!
Not a pleasant place to be.
But recently I was…
I really like to write and I enjoy public speaking, but I had a hint of my tendency to wordiness when my first time in seminary produced a comment from one of my favorite professors. I had just finished a fairly intensive philosophy paper for his class and was really sweating the grade he would…
Listen to this from St. John Chrysostom: "Upon leaving the house one should without fail say, 'I renounce you, Satan, your pomp and service, and I enter into Your service, O Christ.'" It's so radical in its insistence that we actually take seriously the reality of the spiritual warfare and the power in a focused…
One of the most meaningful Pro-Life demonstrations I ever saw was a graduating High School class deciding to put out the number of empty seats with them in the graduates' area of all the children who would have been graduating High School with them had they not been aborted. It was a powerful, silent, but…
“Excellence” is a term we hear a lot in sports and in business. And that ties the word to an idea of achievement or progress.
But there is also an application of “excellence” when it comes to your relationship with God, and that has little to do with achievement or progress and everything to do with…
