While at the hospital with my 84 year old father in law (Clint). Clint had a stroke 3 years ago and his health has challenged him lately. My wife of 35 years (Mary Ann) left the room.  I asked Clint do you know that its time to pray and ask Jesus into your heart? He [...]

By jack Doepke While reading the classical book by A.W. Pink entitled The Sovereignty of God I was troubled by his dogmatic myopic point of view that God gave mankind no choice what- so-ever to control his own destiny, that God chooses each of us- His Elect – and that’s that. While he presents …

By Jim Barringer I wrote recently about the philosophy of the movie “Fight Club” – the main character discovers that material possessions don’t bring happiness or meaning in life, embarks on a journey to find significance, and fails because he’s looking in all the wrong places. Last night I was watching the movie again, to [...]

By Irvin Rozier II Samuel 12. 22, 23: “And he said, while the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether God will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? Can I bring him back again? I [...]

Life! Life is a powerful thing, each one of us walk through our lives hoping. Sometimes we hope for more money, other times we hope for all the world’s temporalities; TV’s, Car’s, Clothes, money, etc. Then there are those times when we don’t have any hope at all! Hope! What does hope mean to you? [...]