My mother dropped out of school to marry her first husband when she was 16.  She proceeded to have three husbands and numerous other partners over the next 15 years or so.  She had nine children that I know of, and I was number eight, from a partner between husband two and three.  There would be one child after me, on the record. She had trouble … [Read more...]

I am sure that you remember that Jesus once said about little children “of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.” One of the things he meant was that just as small children believe and trust everything that their parents tell them, so Christians (those who belong to the Kingdom of Heaven) believe and trust their Heavenly King. Of course, a child may be … [Read more...]

Continuing our study of the Lord’s word to the church at Pergamos, the Lord acknowledged that this church dwelt at the place of “Satan’s throne.” Pergamos had a literal altar to the god Baal called “Satan’s throne.” In the 1930s, German archeologists excavated this altar and moved it to Berlin where it still resides in the Pergamon Museum. … [Read more...]

Do you ever feel like you have been completely abandoned by the world?  Do you struggle with feelings of loneliness, isolation and depression?  If so, you are far from alone. Thanks to technology Americans are more isolated than they have ever been before, and as you will see below, this is really starting to cause a major national crisis. … [Read more...]

Did you know that the percentage of 18 to 34-year-old Americans that are married and living with a spouse has dropped by more than half since 1975?  Back then, 57 percent of everyone in that age group “lived with a spouse”, but today that number has dropped to just 27 percent. These numbers come from “the Changing Economics and Demographics of … [Read more...]

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:28) Black is a color; it is not a race. Being black is not a human condition, albeit that is what many today treat it as. Those facts notwithstanding, being recognized as a skin color is the … [Read more...]

I don’t know how we cannot see it. Even those who were raised in “Christian” homes seemed to be wandering aimlessly in the moral cesspool known as America. The Scriptures warn us that “When there was no God in Israel everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” Young American Christians are afloat in a sea without a compass. We have failed to … [Read more...]

I still believe the United States is the greatest country on earth. But our country needs help. While have a lot of enemies on the outside, I’m more concerned about the enemies we have on the inside. As Historian Will Durant wrote, “A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential cause … [Read more...]

All the hatred and bitterness you see right now between white and black or black on black crime comes from unforgiveness. The Bible tells us that resentment or bitterness causes trouble and bitter torment, and many become contaminated and defiled by it (see Hebrews 12:15).  Wherever there has been a hurt, the human reaction is usually one of … [Read more...]

Torn from an idyllic life with a loving, extended family in 1960’s Alabama, young Johnny Turnipseed found himself in Minneapolis, Minnesota with a father he no longer recognized and empty cupboards. A.C. Turnipseed’s alcoholism and womanizing started a chain reaction of poverty, violence, addiction and despair that nearly destroyed three … [Read more...]