I made a commitment at the end of 2024 to read through the Bible in 2025. So far, I am up to date on my reading plan. Reading through the Bible in a year is not the only way a person can read Scripture privately, but it is a good way to familiarize yourself with the entirety of God’s Word.I just recently finished Judges in my Old Testament reading. Two truths caught my attention as I read throu...  Read More

       “April showers bring May flowers.” I have heard this saying for as long as I can   remember. For the most part, I do not enjoy rainy days. The rain often washes out our plans for anything outside. However, we need rain! After a few weeks without rain, we are all praying for rain. Without the rain we would not be able to enjoy the beauty of the flowers and a host of other agricultural produc...  Read More

        YOU DO NOT WANT TO MISS THIS!On March 28th and 29th Bethel Baptist Church will host the Reclaiming the Supernatural Worldview of the Bible Conference. This conference will be an in-depth look into God’s Word as it pertains to supernatural and spiritual realities. The Conference will begin on Friday night at 6:00PM. We will have 3 sessions on Friday night. The Conference will resume Saturda...  Read More

         Sometimes we read texts, emails, articles, and books in light of how we are feeling and attribute our perspective onto the words we are seeing. When we do this, we can truly misunderstand and   misrepresent the intention of the writer. For example, read this statement, “I love you.” What do you think when you read that? How do you feel?         Usually, when I hear or read someone say tha...  Read More

Of all the holidays on the calendar, New Years perplexes me the most. I say the same thing every year, “I can’t believe it’s already New Years. It seems like last year just began.” Time flies whether we are having fun or not.Young people do not always ponder deeply the passage of time. Sure, they count down the days till Christmas or their birthdays or the end of school, but they do not always see...  Read More

If you were asked to explain Christmas to someone who had never heard of it what would you say? What would you tell someone who had never heard about Christmas? Would you start with family, food, and fun? Or would you start with faith? For so many, they would explain Christmas as a holiday where family is emphasized. I love my family. I highly value family. God has created the family as a bedrock ...  Read More

What should God’s faithful people do in a time of moral, spiritual, and societal degradation and collapse? As followers of Christ and believers in the Bible we must give serious consideration to this question.            We can learn so much from the greater testament. God was finished with that particular generation of Jews in Jeremiah 7 because of their idolatry and pluralism. They thought that ...  Read More

“Don’t bury the lead!” I wish every internet “journalist” today would abide by this axiom. Anytime I succumb to the clickbait headline I immediately skip to at least the third paragraph of the article, because I know the first two will contain mindless dribble and leftist propaganda. Usually, by paragraph three or four, I can find the meat of the article. This irritating style of writing seems to ...  Read More

Twenty years ago, I read a book titled Dawkins’ God: Genes, Memes, and the Meaning of Life, written by Alister McGrath, a Christian Apologist. Richard Dawkins was a famous atheist apologist, one of the so-called “Four Horsemen” of the new atheism. Dawkins is still alive physically, but perhaps not as prominent as he once was in the world of atheism. Some of Dawkins’ luster may have been lost when ...  Read More

The dog days of summer have come upon us! Originally, the dog days of summer stem from Hellenistic astrology and the heliacal rising of Sirius, the dog star. The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that Sirius’s dawn rising in the summer contributed to the extreme heat of the season. The name “Sirius” even stems from the Ancient Greek seírios, meaning “scorching.” The Egyptians used Sirius’s dawn r...  Read More

July has always been one of my favorite months for several reasons. One, it is my birthday month. This year I will celebrate a big one. I cannot believe I have become this old. The alternative, however, seems a bit premature at the moment. Two, my dad always bought fireworks to celebrate the Fourth. Usually, after shooting off all the fireworks, we would break out the shotguns. I’m not certain tha...  Read More

Of all the realities in existence, two related ones are the most sobering to me: the brevity of life and the reality of death. We are not getting out of here alive! Throughout the centuries, death has been called the King of Terrors for good reason. The statistics on death are overwhelming—every one out of one person dies. Furthermore, the reality of the passing of time becomes more apparent the l...  Read More