A Place For You.

One of the great challenges facing Christians is peer pressure. We all want to be liked and so the tendency is to alter our lives just enough so we will be accepted by others. How many Christians have compromised values simply because they did not want to stand out and be different? One lesson each of us must learn is how fickle those around us are. Look at two incidents in the life of Paul. When he cured the crippled…

I remember a game I played as a child, but I am not sure what it was called. I think it was called “Follow the Leader,” where one child became the leader and whatever he did had to be exactly duplicated in all those other children who were following the leader. If he jumped, they jumped. If he turned in a circle, they turned in a circle. If he walked backwards, they walked backwards. If he did all three in…

The fabled “Pony Express” was short lived. It lasted only about a year and a half (April 1860 -October 1861). The transcontinental telegraph put an end to the need for the horses and their riders. However, in the brief time it existed, the service made a lasting impact on American history. Before the creation of the Pony Express it took a long time for news from the East coast to reach the West coast. For example, when James Buchanan was…

In the Old Testament God commanded that nobody should add to or take away from His word (Deut. 4:2), and that none should turn to the right or the left of His word (Deut. 5:32; 12:32). The New Testament with equal force forbids adding to or taking from or deviating in any way (Rev. 22:18-19; 2 John 9-11). So the landmarks of the Old Testament were not to be removed by the Israelites, and the landmarks of the New Testament…