My family and I enjoy going to the Outer Banks for our vacations every year, and one of the souvenirs that my wife Ruth and our children like to try to find is sea glass. Sea glass is the result of glass items being thrown into the ocean, and after undergoing the storms and waves of the ocean, the glass pieces return to the shores as beautiful, colorful jewels that people love to use for jewelry, decoration, and the like. Some people that we have encountered in shops in…
Filed under: Devotional, Michael Carter on August 31st, 2008 | No Comments »
Many fanciful and speculative theories have arisen in regard to the Book of Revelation. The popular doctrine of dispensational premillennialism is among these. Basically, this is the belief that at some future period in time, Jesus Christ will return to this earth, defeat Satan and his minions in the battle of Armageddon, and reign as King in the literal city of Jerusalem for 1000 years. A correct contextual reading of the first four verses of the first chapter of Revelation will go a long way to…
Filed under: Doctrine, Michael Carter on August 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
On 25 June, 1967 the Beatles debuted what would become the world famous anthem “All You Need Is Love” , written specifically for the BBC television special “One World”. Beatles lore holds that John Lennon had written the song specifically for the program two weeks prior to the live broadcast. Aired simultaneously in 26 countries, 400 million viewers eagerly tuned in. When asked about his inspiration, Lennon reportedly said he chose the one word that could be easily understood in every language. Love.
All You Need Is Love has since become a cure all mantra for most any difficulty which one might face. The “love…
Filed under: Authors, Gregg Alexander on August 29th, 2008 | No Comments »
One of the most encouraging and rewarding things about the Christian religion is the fact that it is extremely personal. As busy as he was, Jesus was never too busy for the individual. The gospel comes to us as individuals, as well as to the whole world. What difference does the individual make? God’s system is based upon the individual. Harry Emerson Fosdick once put it this way, “It is clearly true that in the long run, everything good or bad depends on the quality of individuals.”
The letters V.I.P. were made familiar during World War II. One given the…
Filed under: Charles Cash, Devotional on August 28th, 2008 | No Comments »
Perhaps you’ve heard that question asked of someone that had something foul to say. It is a simple idea really – how can one express the kind of love reserved for the one that brought us into the world with the same mouth that uses profanity, gossips, lies or any other of a host of evil actions our tongue can carry out for us? James 3 asks the essentially the same question of us in verses 9 -10 when we praise the Father yet curse man.
James also compares our tongue to the bit in a horse’s mouth and a…
Filed under: Butch Adams, Devotional on August 26th, 2008 | No Comments »
