I am writing this article at a new phase of my life. My 76 year old left leg became very painful,  resulting in taking time off from work. This became my new normal.  However, as my physical body has aged, I can still continue to renew my inner spirit (II ...

HEBREWS 12 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: 希伯来书 12 因此，我们既得了不能震动的国，就当存感恩的心，借此以敬畏和虔诚事奉神，使祂喜悦。 29 For our God is a consuming fire. 因为我们的神是烈焰。 Serving God Properly Next to being a child of God through the ...

After the return of the exiled Jews in 444 BC, Sanballat heard that the Jews were building the wall around Jerusalem. He said, What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out ...

1 Corinthians 9 哥林多前书 9 24 Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 你们岂不知在赛场上跑的都跑，但只有一人得奖？所以要这样跑，好叫你们得着奖赏。 25 And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain ...

 Light on the Sidewalk It was a warm afternoon, the kind that makes the pavement shimmer and the air feel thick with something more than heat. I had parked near the edge of the plaza, where a small store sat tucked between a nail salon and a vape shop. Its ...

The young child was screaming, hollering, and  “throwing a fit” in Walmart.  My first inclination is to think, “Why doesn’t that parent control that child?”  On second thought, it comes to mind, “That child is not my child.” “I don’t know what kind of physical or mental or emotional trauma ...

John 8:31-32 If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. Christ-Centered Truth Human institutions often craft systems of belief that blend biblical language with traditions, interpretations, and cultural adaptations that slowly eclipse the ...

ROMANS 5 6 For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die— 8 but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Since, therefore, we ...

A friend of mine recently passed away. He will not be forgotten for what he did for our community and for the Kingdom of God. The main thing he did was to found a Christian high school that began in the church he and his wife attended, but over the ...

John 3 16 “For God so loved the world,[i] that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. 17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. 18 Whoever believes in him is not condemned, ...