Faith

A newly-called music minister asked for long-range sermon plans. I told him I had none, though once I did. A seminary professor required us to submit a year’s pulpit work. We students did the same kind of thing, beginning with special days like Mother’s Day and Easter and Christmas – we knew what we’d talk…

“Just accept Jesus Christ as your personal Savior!” This sounds appealing, simple and good to our ears. We hear this phrase on the internet, the radio and from denominational pulpits, BUT it is NOT found in the Bible! This appears to be man’s plan, but NOT God’s. The apostle Peter admonished, “If any man speak,…

An old fable tells of a frog who envied his pond friends, the geese, when they prepared to fly south in the winter and escape arctic temperatures. The more he pondered, an idea formed in his head. The frog asked two geese to hold a stick between their beaks. He would clamp onto it with…

The idea of a “rapture” is not taught in the Bible! Some people teach that Jesus is going to secretly return to the earth and take all righteous people, both the living and the dead, to heaven where they will live for seven years. I cannot find this teaching anywhere in my Bible. What does…

  I had the privilege of serving the First Baptist Church in Selma for seven years. This is an inner-city church with three others nearby, and I commonly walked downtown for lunch or shopping. One day I made the first lap of the Selma-to-Montgomery march. The now-called “Bloody Sunday” event occurred on March 7, 1965.…

Sometimes we who know the Lord personally believe our suffering and trials result from something we’ve done wrong in our lives. That can be the case, but it is not always the reason. The Bible reveals multiple instances when it was just the opposite. The reason for suffering was due to a person’s righteousness and…