What an exciting time to be alive! How awesome it is to view the whole spectrum of human history from the panoramic perspective of God’s Word and to know what on earth is going on! And how wonderful to know that we have chosen the winning side in the spiritual battle raging all over the earth, giving us both HOPE …
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS: FREEDOM AND PROSPERITY
This November 6, we here in the USA will hold a national election, with the Presidency being the most talked about race from coast to coast. As Christians, we should base our political ideas and involvement upon what the Word of God says. After all, civil government was His idea. Actually, I think He intended it to be a lot …
ARE YOU AN “EXTREMIST”?
With little more than a month to go until Election Day here in the USA, both sides at all levels are flailing away with political rhetoric extolling their own virtues and castigating their opponents. Candidates on both sides proclaim themselves as the answer to local and national problems. One of the charges often leveled at an opponent is that he …
WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COUNTERFEITS
Greetings! Better fasten your seat belt before you read this issue of FRUIT OF D’VINE, as we will address both the massive assault on all Christians (especially on those of us privileged to have heard LOTS of biblical truth) and what we ought to do about it. Have you noticed the steadily increasing abandonment of biblical principles in the government …
CHILDREN SMILE ABOUT 400 TIMES A DAY
I recently read the following in an airline magazine: “Children smile about 400 times a day. That’s quite a workout for their little facial muscles, but hey, smiles are contagious, right? Apparently not for adults. According to Ron Gutman, whose TED study on the subject went viral, only a third of grown-ups smile more than 20 times a day, and …
THE SPECTRUM OF HIS-STORY
Here we are at the beginning of another month. It’s hard to believe that 2012 is almost half gone. If you have watched The End Times video, you may have thought how privileged we are to be able to step back from the hustle and bustle of life and take a broad biblical look at the spectrum of His-story from …
ARE YOU GETTING ENOUGH SON?
If you live in a seasonable climate, you are probably loving the warm weather that May brings and the opportunity to soak up some vitamin D-filled sunshine. In college, we sun-worshipers called that “getting some ‘bennies’” (i.e., beneficial rays of the Sun). Little did I know back then that I would one day worship The Son and get way more …
HOW MANY PEOPLE WILL BE AT YOUR “WAKE”?
The answer to the above question depends upon how many people are now in your wake. Words is fascinating, ain’t they? That is especially true when we realize that GOD is the Author of language, the medium by which He intends us to know Him and His Son, Jesus Christ, and the medium by which we are to make them …
A HEALED THUMB GLOWING IN THE DARKNESS
May the glory of the Lord Jesus be ever more manifest in your life as you consistently reach for his heart and hold fast to him. I once said in a Bible teaching that the only way in which I (a four-year college point guard) have surpassed the Apostle Paul is that he never experienced the unmitigated exhilaration of bringing …
“YOU’VE GOT MAIL!”
February is a month when the U.S. “Postal Service” (can you say, “oxymoron”?) is flooded with mail, as both men and women send Valentine’s Day cards to the love of their lives. Try to imagine the confusion if each would-be Valentine somehow got in the wrong envelope, and people sat there reading words addressed to someone else’s lover. It would …