According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, each day in the United States nine people die and more than 1,000 suffer injuries in crashes involving a distracted driver. Three main kinds of distraction cause accidents: (1) visual: taking your eyes off the road, (2) manual: taking your hands off the wheel, and (3) […]
“Brothers, what shall we do?” (Acts 2:37). If, as we believe, Jesus is the only avenue through which we can access Father God, then everyone we meet is either in one of two categories. They are either in God’s marvelous grace as souls saved by faith, or they are lost and separated from God. The […]
Imitation comes naturally to us. You might say it’s in our DNA. Anyone who has spent time with children can confirm this. The other day as I was delivering mail on my route, I saw a man mowing his front lawn, followed closely by his young daughter who was “helping” with her plastic mower. A […]
Sin is a “knotty” problem. The word “not” appears three times in our lesson text (Genesis 3:1, 3, and 4). The devil used the word twice, and Eve, quoting God, used it once. The devil told Adam and Eve that they would not die if they ate the forbidden fruit. But that was a lie. […]
A friend of mine recently completed a 360-degree performance review at work. Are you familiar with the practice? It’s called “360” because it requires asking everyone who works around you (as in a 360-degree circle) to evaluate your effectiveness on the job. My friend’s coworkers gave him positive marks, but their honest feedback revealed areas […]
