“Silver and gold have I none, but what I do have I give to you; In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, walk!” With these simple words from Peter in Acts 3, years of a crippled physique and a weak body were erased, resulting in a man who was “lame from his mother’s womb” …

Have you ever thought about that before? Ever? Even just a little bit? To be fair, it’s not a question that comes up very often, mostly because it’s essentially a moot point. But hypothetically speaking, let’s pretend that instead of taking his own life, Judas had simply gone into hiding for a few days while …

“Behold, I have found only this, that God made men upright, but they have sought out many devices.” (Eccl. 7:29) Contrary to the calvinistic and catholic teaching, man was not born with an original sin inside of themselves. Also, apart from what man would tell you, we do not have within ourselves an innate desire …

“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you” (Matt. 28:19-20a). Sounds easy enough, doesn’t it? Jesus’ command in the last few verses of the Gospel of Matthew has been billed …

By far, the best teacher I ever had any year in school would have been Dr. Powell, who taught four different sections of American History at Amarillo College. Apart from having two doctorates, one in Foreign Relations and another in American Colonial History, he had also earned a purple heart in the Gulf War and …

I have never met God, but He has created the world that I live on. He put the grass under my feet, the sky above my head, and the air into my lungs, but I have never seen what He looks like. I have heard the stories of His faithfulness to Abraham and to Moses, …

There is an unquenchable desire within each of us to know the complexities of the world around us. We all desire to know the who, where, why, when, what and how of the existence of matter, and whenever an explanation rises up that “seems” to fit the mold, we are satisfied…for a little while. It …

We’ve all heard the story of Job. He was a man who had everything you could want out of life: family, land, servants, honor, and most importantly, the commendation of God (Job 1:8). In a test of his perseverance, God allowed Satan to strip him of all he had, including his own health. To this …

Several years ago, I remember hearing a preacher say that Joab’s relationship with King David changed dramatically after David’s encounter with Bathsheba in 2 Samuel 11. He argued that the closeness they once experienced deteriorated in the following years, either due to a mistrust of the David the man or a soldier’s lack of faith …

Baal. Zeus. Ashteroth. Hermes. Call them what you want, but they all have one thing in common: their uselessness. However, that certainly did not stop people from worshipping them for hundreds and even thousands of years. Great monuments and ornate temples were set up every day to pay homage to these images, giving respect to …