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“When this son of yours, who has squandered your property with harlots, comes home, you kill the fattened calf for him!” (Luke 15:30) These are the bitter words of a faithful older son to his father on the return of a faithless, wrong doing younger son. They are entirely true of the younger son, and…

In 1674 King James I of England wrote and published “King James, His Counterblast to Tobacco”, a treatise on the damage that smoking tobacco caused. He asserted that the practice was harmful to the lungs, mouth, and discolored the teeth. It fouled the breath and made a person smell bad and unpleasant in company. He…

Once when they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh, Hannah arose. ( 1Samuel 1:9) The arising of Hannah at Shiloh is one of the most pivotal moments in the history of both Israel and of Christianity; for this is the spiritual moment of decision in the mind of a young woman that will change…

One day when our Sunday School class was discussing Corrie ten Boom’s description of Amsterdam at the end of World War II; of the eighteen wheeler trucks from Canada waiting at the border for the Armistice, to move in and deliver food for the starving Dutch population, Peggy DeRuyter exclaimed , “I saw those trucks!…

When my sister Holly and I visited our childhood home after many years away from there, she rang the doorbell and we were met by two young girls who were home alone. I explained that we had once lived in their house; and would we be allowed to visit them? They answered that they would…

The Resurrection is the most mysterious event in the history of the world. Its mystery is enhanced by the many eyewitnesses to both the Crucifixion and the Resurrection. For forty days following his Resurrection Jesus was seen by over 500 believers. (1Corinthians 15:6) There is an overwhelming amount of truly pertinent information that we could…

The remains of the cell where Paul was confined in Philippi There are two things about St. Paul that astound me whenever I read the book of Acts or his letters. The first one is that Paul was such an intense persecutor of Christians. He displayed not the slightest human compassion for individuals who had…

Jesus sent two of his disciples, saying to them, “Go to the village ahead of you , and just as you enter it, you will find a (donkey ) colt tied there, which no one has ever r1dden. Untie it and bring it here.” (Mark 11:2) Jesus’ encounters with people of all types high and…

There is a small roadsid diner/cafe in Mineral WellsTexas., I will call “Jake’s”. Jack and I stop there some times coming or going to the lake. Jake and Clara, his main waitress, now recognize us and we’re warmly welcomed when they see us come through the door. Last week we stopped for lunch on the…

Among the many passages in the Old Testament that reflect Christ, there are two passages that, with a little light from the New Testament, lead us directly to Christ. The first appears in Deuteronomy : If any of your people–Hebrew men or women—sell themselves to you and serve you six years, in the seventh year…