When Do We Start To “Train Up Our Child“?
In the Old Testament in the book of Proverbs Solomon’s advice to parents is to “train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will…
The Almost Christian
Growing up for the first twenty-five years of my life I was raised Quaker, also referred to as “The Society of Friends”. A little later I got married and for…
The Old Quaker’s Paradox
An old Quaker advertised that he would give away 40 acres of good farmland to anyone who is perfectly satisfied with what he had. One day, a man seeking the…
The Campfire of Christ
A while ago our youth group, Stepping Stones, went out to a fire pit we had in the field behind the church to make it ready so that we could use it. It…
No Limits - Are You A Daredevil?
Human beings have been craving the adrenaline rush since the first caveman dared the first lion to "catch me if you can." That's not to say that we all crave danger, but it's so…
The Olive Tree Metaphor
Here’s The Scripture; But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the…
What Does Prayer Mean in Hebrew
In our modern religious culture prayer is a communication between man and God. The Hebrew word for prayer literally means to "fall down to the ground in the presence of one in authority…
The Unseen Clothes
In traveling across the United States with a Christian training company I have attended a lot of churches all over the country. One thing I have noticed is, that really…
Christians; Separate from the World
Biblical separation is the recognition that God has called believers out of the world and into a personal and corporate purity in the midst of sinful cultures. Personal separation involves…
The Meaning of Christ’s Crown of Thorns
In the story of Christ’s crucifixion, the Roman soldiers placed a crown of thorns on Jesus’s head to mock him because he was known as “the King of the Jews”.…