Sleep is an interesting behavior we all experience. We are hard wired to need it. Babies sleep a lot, almost as much as cats. Children need to sleep a lot but fight it because they don’t want to miss life. Adults, on the other hand, are all over the map. They say the average adult sleeps (or at least needs to sleep) between 7-9 hours a day, in essence, one third of our lives dedicated to sleeping. I know some people who seem to sleep a lot — they consider it a hobby — and others who hardly sleep; they […]

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“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me. Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me” (Psalm 23:4 NKJV). There are a lot of voices and volumes around today telling us how to live. Self-help books and motivational videos are a dime a dozen in our world. But there is only one book that tells us how to die. And there is no one verse in this Book of all books that is more poignant and pertinent to the subject than the fourth verse of the […]

“No longer will there be any curse . . . ‘for the old order of things has passed away’” (Revelation 22:3, 21:4).   This month we celebrate Easter, and let me make something perfectly clear – EASTER IS FOR EVERYONE but not EVERYONE IS FOR EASTER! Easter is for everyone who, by grace through faith, will acknowledge Jesus as the crucified and risen Savior of the world, confess and repent of their sin, and receive the forgiveness of God the Father and Jesus as Lord over their lives. If this is you, oh what a word of encouragement I have […]