What’s the worst, most despicable sin a person could ever commit? Ancient Israelites could easily answer that.  They had heard over and over the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.  Lot chose possessions, luxury, and ease, pitching his tent toward Sodom (Genesis 13:10-13), rather than a life of faith near his ...

Four big, brawny, lifelong experienced fishermen, Peter, James, John, and Andrew, along with several other grown men, were now transporting Jesus across the Sea of Galilee, but they were terrified for their lives.  These fishermen had battled sudden, unexpected storms on Galilee all their lives.  But this storm was different. ...

How big do we look to God as He looks down from heaven?  Psalm 113:6 says that God humbles himself to behold the things that are in heaven and in the earth. I kicked an ant nest and watched as those tiny creatures scrambled everywhere. How insignificant and tiny they ...

Brace yourselves! The cold weather is coming, and with it snow –  and ice –  and car accidents – and frozen pipe lines. I was from North Wisconsin and had a tendency to scoff at the cold weather warnings in Texas and Oklahoma. It was 1983, heading into Christmas time.  ...

Looking down from the top of the tallest building I had ever seen or entered, I trembled.  My fear of heights made me shaky.  This Southland Life building in downtown Dallas in 1962, was billed as the tallest building west of the Mississippi River.  It stood 42 stories and 550 ...