O fools, and slow of heart to believe…” (Luke 24:25). Of this verse, Oswald Chambers said, “To believe is literally to commit...
L. E. Maxwell lists a few of the “subtle forms of worldliness which lure us to the rocks, and wreck our Christian testimony...
In The Spiritual Life by Andrew Murray, we read these comments on 2Timothy 1:12: "We do not understand how literally and how absolutely God wants to have us for...
According to the May 13-14, 2006, edition of the "Wall Street Journal," more and more children are getting something for themselves for Mother's Day. That's right. One son removed a tatoo that neither he nor his mother liked for his Mother's Day gift. Some are starting therapy or sitting down with a financial planner and calling it a Mother's Day present. Others are buying themselves phones so their mother can reach them. This the age when "men shall be lovers of their own selves" (2Timothy 3:2). This is just another example of our new age of narcissism.
Today's paper reports that Lew Anderson, the last actor to play Clarabell the Clown on the Howdy Doody show, died in N.Y. at the age of 84. No disrespect meant to Lew Anderson (Or Clarabell), but I am sure that we will continue to have plenty of clowns. Many are in government and many stand behind pulpits. One of the signs of the last days is that men "shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables" (2 Timothy 4:4). Whether those fables are the Chronicles of Narnia or the Da Vinci Code, they have to have some clowns who will declare their significance in order to survive.
