Tag Archives: believe

Eighty years ago, it was a gold stick pin with small diamonds on each end. My great-grandfather wore it on his lapel for special occasions. In 1954 it was made into a ring with a white pearl on top and given to my mother for her eighth-grade graduation gift. From ...

The boy’s father was at wits-end, was there any hope for his son? It had gone on for years, the boy’s twisting and thrashing about, so badly that he foamed at the mouth and attempted to throw himself into the home’s fireplace. He’d even come close to drowning when he’d ...

‘The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.’ Romans 6:23 (NIV) Salvation brings many rewards.  Eternal life is just one of them.  The fact is, to receive eternal life in God’s holy Heaven, one must recognize Jesus Christ as ...

The day must have started off with fair weather–even sunshine and blue skies. Jesus spent time traveling and performing miracles that all around Him witnessed. Joy and excitement must have filled the air, and the hearts of His disciples as they witnessed His power and the love and concern He ...

It was the typical Babylonian form of execution. After being bound, the guilty were placed in a brick kiln-type furnace with temperatures over 500 degrees hotter than today’s hottest crematory. Death would be almost instantaneous. Three young Hebrew men were about to experience this form of execution for not bowing ...