Ecclesiastes 12:10

For the last few months, it was Pokémon Go. Before that is was Flappy Birds. Before that, it was Angry Birds or Temple Run. That app that everyone is playing, at least for the moment.  Now everyone is on Instagram before that is was Facebook.  Before that it was Myspace.  Before that it was Xanga. The “it” social media site everyone was using.   O.K. maybe these references are too new for you, then think back to your pet rock, yo-yo, the Stretch Armstrong, Cabbage Patch Doll, or your pogo ball.  All those fads that were so hot that everyone just had to have them. But then just as fast as they faded in they faded right back out.   Unfortunately, the fad for many people isn’t a toy or a game but their faith. " In a similar way these are the ones on whom seed was sown on the rocky places, who, when they hear the word, immediately receive it with joy;  and they have no firm root in themselves, but are only temporary; then, ...

  Why would the British Government in 1941 purchase hundreds of dead rats?  To defeat the Nazi’s of course.   You see, rats were a problem for Germans and British alike.  Rats had a habit of getting onto trains, and at times, they’d make their way to the boiler room of a steam engine.  Firemen, whose job it was to keep tossing coal into the furnace to keep the steam coming, would habitually toss any dead rats into the furnace.  The plan was to smuggle the dead rats, laced with a tiny amount of plastic explosives, into Germany and onto trains. When the dead rats were thrown into the furnace they would explode enough to sabotage the train and its delivery but not so much as to cause a major disaster. [1]   It might have worked too if the shipment had not been intercepted on route.  Then again maybe it worked out for the better.  What sounds like a failure turned out to be a success.  The Nazis had stopped the first and only ...

   Think twice before you post your good deeds on Facebook so people can like them; doing so doesn’t make your heavenly Father proud.   When you are doing something for the poor and you post about the good work you are doing, then do a press release so everyone will know that you are the 'church that really cares', don’t expect a reward from God, you're already getting your publicity.   It would be a lot better if you just did it; not did it and uploaded it, you can do good without the social media knowing about it.   The internet might not know all about it but God sure would, and isn’t him we are seeking to please?   We should pray, but we don’t have to make sure we tweet it out that everyone can share our wonderfully written words.  Prayer is talking to God, not another way we can promote ourselves and our agendas.  Once again God isn’t impressed.   Rather than put it out there, how about we keep it to ourselves. ...

  When you were in school, how long did you remember something after the lesson was over, especially once you got into Christmas break?  Most teachers will tell you the first couple of week after the break is spent trying to get kids to remember all that they forgot over the holiday.  That is what is so remarkable about the 10-year-old Tilly Smith of England, who not only remembered something during Christmas but used that info to save a bunch of people.     Tilly and her family were on vacation in Phuket, Thailand, when the ocean waves began increasing and hitting the shore a little closer with each wave. Everyone else on the beach was dumbstruck by the change in the ocean, but Tilly knew better.  Only two weeks prior, she had learned about tsunamis in her geography class.  Tilly frantically told her parents that a tsunami was on its way. Her parent began to pack up and leave but not before they mentioned their suspicions to a security guar...

 Abraham Lincoln understood that while he was in charge of a democracy, his office wasn’t one.  Once at the end of a disagreement with his cabinet, he announced the vote, “ Seven nays, one aye; the ayes have it .”  He was the one aye and that was all that mattered.   Some folks have got to thinking that the church is a democracy, that each person can have their say and their way. That in the end decisions should be based on what the majority wants. That its’ practices can be voted on and modified at the whims of it members.   But the Church isn’t a democracy, it is a kingdom. And you are not the King! He (Jesus Christ) is also head of the body, the church; and He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, so that He Himself will come to have first place in everything . Colossians 1:18   Jesus was the King from the beginning. It is his body.  He is in first place.  He rules.  When it comes to his church what he say...