Turn to and read Proverbs 7:1-10 . Several years ago, I preached a series of messages on Biblical principles where I defined a Biblical principle, a conviction, a standard, and a preference. I don’t know how many of you will remember those definitions so I’ll give them to you again. A Biblical principle…

The Current of Our Culture In an article entitled, “Society’s Self-Destructive Addiction to Faster Living,” psychologist and author, Dr. Stephanie Brown wrote... “Caught in a chaotic, frenzied spiral of a new addiction, people are chasing money, power, success and a wilder, faster pace of life.” “What…

This past Monday night, at an Academy event, I shared this verse with the parents who attended... Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered. I then asked the parents... What is the “key of knowledge?” I…

Although I am not much of a fisherman now, throughout my life I have had a number of occasions to go fishing. I recall, as a young boy, the first fish that I ever caught. I recall, going with my father to Green Castle Lake just south of Marshalltown, Iowa, where I grew up. I recall, with my father and…

Think back to where you were and what you were doing in 1984. In 1984 I turned 12 years old. It was also the year when I was first introduced to something that literally would change the entire world. What was it? It was the computer. Although computers had been around for awhile at this point, they…

“If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all. And the moment I did join it, if I had found one, I should spoiled it, for it would not have been a perfect church after I had become a member of it. Still, imperfect as it is, it is the dearest…

During my years as a youth pastor, there was a series of messages that I shared with the teenagers that I always desired to share with parents but I just never had that opportunity. Until now... Our Starting Point is the Bible. As you can tell, from the title of the message, we are going to be looking…