From My Point Of View

Many years ago, long before everyone had a cell phone, a young teenager went into a store and asked to use the telephone. The clerk ...

I have a picture in my office given to me from the ICI organization of a half-finished statue being carved out of rock entitled, “The ...

In Numbers 2, Moses is giving his assignments to each tribe as to where they will camp in relationship to the Tabernacle and what position ...

Encouraging as were many developments among the Pilgrims, they experienced much sadness, but they suffered their way through to thanksgiving. Brimming over with gratitude as ...

GOOD GRIEF! The Bible tells us that Job lost everything, his live stock, and his sons and daughters.  In his grief he said, in Job ...

DON’T QUIT! Allow me to speak a word of encouragement to you.  Maybe you’re discouraged and can’t see a solution for the problems you are ...

IT’S THAT SIMPLE The law professor was trying to teach his students a lesson and ask, “If you were going to give someone an orange, ...

IS HEAVEN A CONSOLATION PRIZE? How many variations on this theme have you heard: “Poor John (or Nancy or Dad or Grandma, etc.).  Their life ...

Colonel Sanders was sixty-five years old when he opened the first Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. When Marie was eighteen years old, a bad case of ...

ARE YOU SALTY? Have you heard little Johnny’s definition of salt? “Salt is the stuff that when you don’t put any on potatoes, makes them ...

  Gen 12:8 From there he (Abraham) went on toward the hills east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai ...

Thanksgiving and worship have their beginning in the inner man and, if genuine, will eventually be expressed outwardly.  Over the years we have allowed the ...

My father never got to where he enjoyed flying in airplanes.  Whenever possible, he would drive his car, making the excuse that “it just felt ...

How many variations on this statement have you heard: “Poor John (or Nancy or Dad or Grandma, etc.).  Their life was cut short. They died ...

TIMES ARE CHANGING We live in a changing world.  Within the last one hundred years we have come through the Age of Agricultural, the Industrial ...

“BUT GOD…” 2 Cor 7:5-6, This body of ours had no rest, but we were harassed at every turn — conflicts on the outside, fears ...

THE BODY OF CHRIST One of the characters in Charles M. Schulz “Peanuts” cartoon was a boy by the name of Linus Van Pelt, who ...

TEST DAY I can hear him say it just like it was yesterday.  With the afternoon sun shinning through those windows in my high school ...

GOD IS HERE! What we are most eagerly searching for often lies so close to us that we could reach out and touch it. I’m ...

“REFIGERATOR” WISDOM FOR 2017 The door to our refrigerator has gone through quite an evolution over the years. It displayed special papers and “works of ...

FROM MY POINT OF VIEW: My father was a patient man. There were times, however, when I tested this “fruit of the Spirit” virtue. He ...

FROM MY POINT OF VIEW: Worship is certainly a popular word we use in the church world. But what is “worship” and what do we ...

FROM MY POINT OF VIEW: In the Gospels, Jesus tells a parable about a farmer who, when planting his crops, found different levels of success. ...

FROM MY POINT OF VIEW: It was September, 2003, that I began my journey with cancer. Since then, it has raised its ugly head three ...

Is it possible to become so dependent on our previous experience and understanding of God in our lives that we become blinded to new things? ...

July 4, 1776, 56 courageous men wrote their names down on a piece of paper that would become known as the “Declaration of Independence.” It ...

From time to time scribbled sermon notes fall from the pages of a book from my dad’s library I’m looking through. Invariably I receive more ...

He was returning home from his first day at school. The teacher had asked the students to bring copies of their birth certificates so they ...