My heart breaks for all of the oppressed people groups in this world. It seems there is a new one each week. There are protests in Hong Kong and Ecuador, Kurds being attacked by Turkey, and the list goes on. It is easy to ask where God is in all of this. What we need...

Sometimes life deals you a curveball. You get blindsided by a crisis, health issue, or even the loss of someone close. This can have a devastating effect on you and can lead to a pain that doesn’t go away. Jesus offers healing for the brokenhearted. He can take that...

The number one piece of advice that your doctors will give you is to change your diet. Most health issues are a result of poor eating habits and a lack of activity. The obesity rate in the last couple of decades has skyrocketed. The best thing about changing your diet...

A double-edged blade is an instrument that is sharpened on both sides of the metal. It is much sharper than most knives because they are only sharpened on one side. A double-edged blade can be more precise in its cuts. God’s Word is sharper than that. Its truth can...

If you look through YouTube, you are bound to come across some old video of aerobic workouts in the 1980s. The ladies are wearing headbands and leg warmers along with their bright spandex outfits and making funny motions with their arms and legs. These videos are...

Every once in a while, I run across arm wrestling on TV. I always pause because the people who are competing are real characters. They do everything possible to show off their big arms, hoping to intimidate their opponents. It always makes me think of how big my God...

The human ear is incredibly adept at distinguishing voices. A parent can detect the cry of their child in a group of children and know how much they are hurt. You can hear a voice from years ago and recognize it even though you don’t recognize the person. We are also...

There isn’t a week that goes by where I don’t hear a story about someone who is caught in the trap of drugs or alcohol. What it does to the person, and the damage it causes in the family is heartbreaking. So many people are searching for answers on how to overcome it....

The heart is the place where all of our emotions reside. It’s where our feelings are birthed, and they guide much of our throughs and actions. In old English literature, authors often referred to a person dying from a broken heart. We need to guard it with everything...

John Watt is a proud father. He has three sons that play football in the NFL. His son JJ is one of the best defensive players the NFL has ever seen. John can often bee seen on the sidelines of one of his boys' games, often playing catch. They are all spitting images...

Universities and colleges strive to convince you that their way of thinking is higher than the rest of humanity. They look down on anyone whom they perceive as inferior because they are convinced their education makes them smarter than the average person. While they...

The best advice I received when I started in ministry was to do the right thing. Sounds simple but the right thing is rarely the popular thing. The right thing often exposes that which is wrong, and that scares people. Very few people have the guts to do the right...

Have you ever noticed the difference in body language between a team that wins and one that loses? For those who just won their heads are lifted high, and there is a bounce in their step. For those who lost they’re hanging their heads and dragging their feet. Many...

My parents took our family cherry-picking one summer. It was at a beautiful farm with hundreds of cherry trees. I was ecstatic because cherries are one of my favorite fruits. I remember taking the bag the I was given and stuffing it with as many cherries as possible....

It is hard to find anyone who is a model of integrity today. You look to celebrities, athletes, and politicians and all of them tell people what they want to hear, or they are so disrespectful of those they disagree with that it is repulsive. Paul tells Titus to be a...

It seems like everyone is a victim today. Someone has offended them or pain has been caused because of their circumstances. Now there may be truth to these claims but what they do is diminish those who are actual victims, those who have been abused and assaulted. The...

Many religions offer promises they can’t deliver on. They encourage you to meditate so that you can find inner peace. They have you eat strict diets that are supposed to cleanse and bring healing. All of these do nothing to take away the real source of the guilt and...

My oldest daughter is getting real close to the dating age. Figuring out how to handle this does give me a bit of stress. I’m not going to be cleaning my gun if a boy comes over to take her out, but I do want to know if he has pure intentions. I have talked to her...

All of us can remember back when we were in school, to a particular student who was always the teacher's pet. The student was always doing special things for the teacher and in return, got preferential treatment. No one else in the class could stand the person. No one...