See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Would you agree this morning that stress not sanity is dominating most American’s at this time of year? Why are most people…

Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit. And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly. But as he…

In season 3 episode 24 entitled Aunt Bee’s Medicine Man Aunt Bee is seduced by a “medicine man” named Colonel Harvey. The Colonel promises that his 170-proof tonic provides temporary relief from mid-life crisis. This promise appeals to Aunt Bee as she is struggling with various issues in her life. This…

British journalist James Bartholomew observed a trend in modern Western culture and coined a new English term to describe it. He called it “virtue signaling.” What is virtue signaling? I will define it by using an illustration. I recently saw a Facebook post about feeding the homeless which received…

THINKING RIGHTLY ABOUT OURSELVES For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. How are we to think about ourselves? In verse 3 Paul again…

Jessica Ann Lybargar was a 5-week-old baby girl who made it into the nation's press. Jessica came down with pneumonia, and her father, John Cortland Liberger, described in the press as a fundamentalist preacher, prayed for his daughter. He believed that God would answer his prayer; he believed that God…

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came each from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite. They made an appointment together to come to show him sympathy and comfort him. And when they saw him from a distance, they…