If there is one universal element that unites people everywhere, it is the fact that everyone experiences pain. No one is exempt from it. You might say that pain is the price we pay for being alive. Job, no stranger to pain, once observed that “Man that is born of woman is of few days […]

North Georgia has a serious drug problem, any way you measure it. At a time when our community and our nation are troubled in so many different ways, substance abuse is consuming a vast amount of public resources in terms of law enforcement, health care and our court system. Social services are being strained to […]

In the early days of Christianity, the Gospel spread like wildfire, from the church that Jesus built in Jerusalem, eastward through Persia and into India, southward into Africa, northward across Asia, and westward into Europe, by way of Italy; the Apostle Paul himself spoke of mission trips into Spain.

One of the most powerful proofs that man was created in the image of God, that we are all formed after His likeness, is the fact that we possess the gift of free will. We are volitional beings, and we excercise our ability to choose in our thoughts, our words and our actions all the […]

We have all heard the expressions, ‘made to order’, ‘custom designed’ or ‘custom fit’. In the world of fashion, a tailored suit is always to be desired over something just off the rack. These phrases all center around the truth that something that is designed for a unique purpose, or to meet some special need, […]

Amy Carmichael devoted her life as a missionary to India. She once wrote a book entitled, “The Way Things Are”, documenting the depraved conditions of the Christless society she found there. Church leaders back in Europe thought her mad; that surely, things could not be as horrific as she depicted them. Among her writings she […]

A term often used today to describe families in which there are more problems than peace, more confrontations than joy, more anger and bitterness than respect and affection, or more manipulation and self-centeredness than nurture and support, is the word ‘dysfunctional’. When something is dysfunctional it is not operating properly; it is has become impaired, […]

Just over 150 years ago, there was a powerful outpouring of God’s Spirit upon churches in England in what came to be known as the Great Welsh Revival. As a result, many missionaries were sent out from Europe to North-East India to spread the Gospel. The region known as Assam was home to hundreds of […]

In another volley fired in the culture war in which Americans find themselves entangled, new allegations of hate have been applied to those who simply hold to a belief in the biblical principle of heterosexual marriage. The Chick Fil A company support of traditional family values has unleashed a new wave of vitriolic controversy, and […]

To each his own, but I am convinced, by many infallible proofs, that the Bible is the eternal, inspired and inerrant Word of God. There is every reason in the world to trust its teachings, apply its principles and hope in its promises, and no good reason not to. Skeptics try to discredit it, wicked […]

The Batman Massacre in Aurora, Colorado has put our nation’s flag’s at half mast, and our national soul into a somber, reflective season of mourning. The savagery of the indiscriminate killing of innocent strangers, the setting of the crime, certainly chosen for the effect of sensation, and the apparently ‘clean’ criminal record of the shooter […]

When God delivered His people Israel from the bondage of Egypt, and instructed them as to just what kind of nation they were to be, He addressed very directly the issue of health care.

The Bible is a book about freedom; it is a chronicle of liberation. If you had to place a subtitle under “Holy Bible”, you wouldn’t go wrong inscribing the words “Free Indeed” right there on its cover.

Two of the most powerful words to be found in the Bible, and that you will ever encounter in life, two little words that are impossible to ignore or avoid, are But God. But God is a simple enough phrase, but it conveys something more powerful, more life-changing, and greater than our finite mind can […]

Watchman Nee was a Chinese evangelist and missionary who lived and ministered nearly a century ago, establishing hundreds of churches throughout Asia. He wrote some tremendous works on the spiritual life of the believer, one entitled Christ, the Sum of All Spiritual Things. In it, Nee makes the statement that “Christ is God’s everything”. Expounding […]