“O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever.” Psalm 136:1 As I write this blog post it is about 1 week until Thanksgiving. A holiday set aside by this great country to take time and give thanks to God for blessings that He has bestowed upon us.

In today’s world we see and hear a lot about retirement, investing, Wall Street, etc. Commercials on tv and radio flood us with advice on how to prepare for the future. They show us vacations, yachts, mansions, and cars. They tell us this is what it is all about. This is how you leave a

“Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 18:4 Sorry for the delay in postings since my last but we took a little family trip to visit Mickey Mouse. This has got to be the most exhausting trip that you can possibly take. I

“What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?” 1 Corinthians 6:19 We looked in our last post at what we have turned the church into as Christians. In that post I was referring to

“Saying unto them, It is written, My house is the house of prayer, but ye have made it a den of thieves.” Luke 19:46 The above verse is one that is very common to people professing to be Christians. Of course it is spoken by Jesus as He is cleaning out the temple during His

Sorry for the delay in posting. I ran into some technical difficulties and with me and computers, that equals a major difficulty. But here we are and we are going to give this another try and see what happens. When we last left Jonah, he had seen the error of his ways in trying to

“And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time,…..” Jonah 3:1 God’s grace and mercy are so good to us. Chapter 3 of Jonah begins with a subtle but profound statement. On the surface it looks like nothing more than God talking again. But when you read verse 1 of chapter 3,

Jonah has found himself in the belly of a fish at the bottom of the ocean. He tried to run away from God and God’s calling. God could have allowed him to run. He could have given up on Jonah. But, He didn’t. He had a plan for Jonah. He gave Jonah a chance to

When we last left our boy Jonah, he was attempting to run away from God. He did not like the job that God requested him to do. He did not agree with God’s message, because of personal feelings towards a particular group of people. Jonah was given a job and he ran from it. He

Recently in my Teenage Sunday School class, we went through the book of Jonah. For a lot us, we know the story about the man that was swallowed by what we often call a whale. But, there is more to the whole story of Jonah. And when we look more closely, I think we can