. . . a medical term for "hardening of the arteries" which can lead to heart attacks, aneurysms, strokes and physical death, but there is a more dangerous kind of hardening of the heart which, if left untreated, could lead to permanent separation from God for eternity.

When a person "hardens" his or her heart it is the result of intentional ( Read more... )

Apparently, a teenager named Brian Moore liked Joshua Harris' 1995 book I Kissed Dating Goodbye so much that he plagiarized an excerpt from that book's Chapter 7 called "The Room". Without much time to complete an essay assignment, Brian copied in his own handwriting Joshua Harris' work. Brian read the essay aloud at a meeting of Christian athletes ( Read more... )

I'd like to encourage you to develop a daily "quiet time". No, it's not something you gotta do to be a Christian, and you're not a "bad" person if you fail to have a quiet time each morning. The quiet time routine that works for me each morning is when I (i) pray psalm 19:14 and then reflect on who God really is (not just on what He can do for me ( Read more... )

All things work for our good
though sometimes we can't see how they could.
Struggles that break our hearts in two
sometimes blind us to the truth.
Our Father knows what's best for us;
His ways are not our own.
So, when your pathway grows dim,
and you just can't see Him,
Remember He's still on the throne.

God is too wise to be mistaken.
God is too good ( Read more... )

There is a scene near the end of Mel Brook's film comedy Young Frankenstein where the doctor's assistant (actress Terri Garr) flips an electrical switch that is hooked up both to the brain of a strapped down monster (actor Peter Boyle) and to the brain of the mad scientist Victor Frankenstein (actor Gene Wilder) . . . crackle-zzzzap! . . . after ( Read more... )

words fall like drops of rain ( Read more... )

. . . but i'll only pay for one!That's the standard relief line of an orange-blooded Texas-Ex like me who wants to encourage his kids to be Longhorns and go to school in Austin . . . and, in fact, my high school senior has now been accepted so, God willing, he will be there this coming fall ( Read more... )

I have included below the gist of a snailmail letter I received earlier this week ( Read more... )

Behold what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called children of God! Therefore the world does not know us, because it did not know Him. Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is. And ( Read more... )

Then I pleaded with the LORD at that time, saying: O Lord GOD, You have begun to show Your servant Your greatness and Your mighty hand, for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can do anything like Your works and Your mighty deeds? I pray, let me cross over and see the good land beyond the Jordan, those pleasant mountains, and Lebanon. But ( Read more... )