English author Owen Feltham once wrote, “Laughter should dimple the cheek, not furrow the brow.  A jest should be such that all shall be able to join in the laugh which it occasions; but if it bears hard upon one of the company, like the crack of a string, it makes a stop in the music.” When is teasing fun, [...]

The Fort Worth Transportation Authority is going to be advertising for the Dallas-Fort Worth Coalition of Reason, an organization trying to raise awareness that many people don’t believe in God.  In fact, their billboard advertisements will be displayed on four T buses and will overly an image of the American Flag saying, “Millions of Americans are Good Without God”.  The problem [...]

If you’re like me, you’re tired of the viruses, malware, spyware, adware and phishing attacks, but these aren’t the only nuisances plaguing our computers – you also have to protect your family against pornography.  Our computers are highly susceptible to many attacks, and the common software packages sold to filter this stuff are simply not doing their jobs.  When we consider protecting our children [...]

People in the church have always had disagreements, and they always will because Christians are thrust together from all races, cultures and backgrounds.  This diverse nature of The Church often causes conflict between brethren and creates disunity.  For that reason, the Apostle Paul calls for acceptance of one another in spite of strong differences among brethren. Some of these disagreements are doctrinal in [...]

The past year has brought about many political debates and discussions.  This is an important part of understanding the issues at hand and taking care of them, but political discussions are often criticized for lacking substance and failing to actually engage the issues. Many years ago, Jacques Barzun, an American historian of ideas and culture, introduced the term “thought cliché” [...]

We live in a very desensitized society.  From television to shopping we’re inundated with sensual and vulgar images and speech.  These are obvious things from which Christians ought to abstain.  However, there are many subtle areas of desensitization in American culture of which we’re often unaware.  One of these subtleties are euphemisms. As Christians, are we really concerned about our [...]

I thought you might enjoy listening to these people who tried to predict what the future held: “That rainbow song’s no good.  Take it out.” – MGM said after 1st showing of The Wizard of Oz. 1897 – “Radio has no future.”  “X-rays are clearly a hoax”.  “The aeroplane is scientifically impossible.” Elvis Presley’s concert manager fired him in 1954 – “You ought [...]

King David made an incredible resolution when he said, “I will set nothing wicked before my eyes; I hate the work of those who fall away; it shall not cling to me” (Psalm 101:3).  However, his decision to stay on the right track as king of God’s people is applicable to more than just kings.  All Christians should look to [...]

In these days of enormously high gas prices, I cringe to see my gas tank reach empty.  Even worse is the fact that if I run my gas tank out of fuel, Iʼll burn out the fuel pump, which costs much more than a tank of gas.  Thankfully, though, we have a fuel gauge that tells us when weʼre running on empty. Did [...]

If you’re like me, you like to take notes in your Bible.  You may even have a wide margin Bible for that very purpose.  Throughout the years, however, I’ve realized there’s just not enough space in even the best wide margin Bibles to contain the information I want stored much less edit that information at times.  If the Bible gets too old [...]