If you are not familiar with the concept of prayer and fasting this may seem a little bizarre. What many people do not know is that fasting is a spiritual discipline that is practiced almost from cover to cover in the Bible. There are scriptures throughout the Bible that talk about the importance and impact [...]

On October 3, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln made this thanksgiving proclamation. Despite the trials and atrocities of the Civil War, he gave credit to God for peace and the great blessings in America. This is true patriotism. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the [...]

…and where are you going? She was running for her life, with really no place to go. All the security she had ever known was suddenly taken away. How would she survive now? But more importantly, how would her young son survive? With no money, nobody to help, and without food and water, it looked [...]

To Sons and Daughters… I have had an interesting past few years in my family. After Joseph and I got married 6 years ago, we returned from our honeymoon to the news that my dad was moving out of the house and getting separated from my mom. A year later they were divorced. It was [...]

Luke 11:42 clearly demonstrates that tithing can offend God. It is possible to give 10% of your gross income all your life, only to hear God say “woe to you” when you die. “Woe” is a strong word; it is a word of cursing. Jesus cursed the Pharisees for the way they gave. Why?

In 1797 William Wilberforce wrote: Yet thus life rolls away with too many of us in a course of shapeless idleness. Its recreations constitute its chief business…amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, to fill up the void of a listless and languid life; and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is [...]