I love the story of Jonah. I can remember, as a young kid, going into our Bible class a few minutes before time to start and playing with the gigantic fish toy and mini-Jonah action figure. I remember making the fish swallow Jonah up and then vomit him all over the teacher’s desk. It was …

By: Russ Bowman The days leading up to the arrest and crucifixion of Jesus must have been terribly confusing for His apostles.  On the first day of that week, they had walked among the throngs of people who were parading before and after the Lord, paving the road with branches from trees, and openly welcoming …

Of all the things that are difficult in the life of a Christian, talking to someone else about the Gospel is probably one of the hardest. For most of us, we’re content to sit in our little church pews and sing some songs, while resisting the constant temptations that life tends to throw at us …

In the 11th century, a poet by the name of Dante Alighieri wrote a three-part epic poem called The Divine Comedy. The most popular of the three parts is called The Inferno, where he travels into Hell and views the various “circles,” separated by the type of sin that each person committed. At the very …

No, you don’t have to be at every service. Next. …. … .. . Chances are, there a few people that read that line, agreed with it, and simply signed off to go about the rest of their day. If we can get those people back though (imagine me yanking on a gigantic rope), they’ll …

“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 …