Many people today claim to be checking out, even “trying out” Jesus Christ. They are looking for answers, and wonder if Jesus might be the answer for them. Research has shown that their numbers are growing around the globe—rapidly, in some areas. Given the perilous and perverse times in which we live, this should come as no surprise. What IS a bit baffling is the high rate of failures to connect. This seems rather strange, since the seeker wants to find Him and He very…
Astral Airlines flight 2400 winged its way eastward toward the first tentative rays of sunlight that signaled the emerging dawn of another beautiful day. Onboard the aircraft, economy class passenger Richard Sterling awakened with a start, his senses suddenly on high alert. He had not the foggiest idea why he’d snapped to attention. Could it have been a troubling dream, he wondered? If not, what had happened to rouse him and, why did he feel a strong and persistent sense that something, somewhere had…
Sure, I watched cartoons as a kid—lots of them. One of the most common plot devices involved characters who hadn’t encountered one another before. One was a born predator and the other its natural prey—sweet, innocent, and harmless. The predator, sensing no threat, unwisely drops its guard and even starts to trust the little angel, who soon reveals that its meek and mild persona is just a disguise. The merry mayhem begins when the presumptive victim asks the audience in a mischievous stage whisper,…
Some say that the Christian Faith is too simple to be taken seriously by intelligent people. They would have you believe that: 1) they themselves are highly intelligent and 2) they have sincerely tried to take true Christianity seriously but found to their great disappointment, that it was not up to their uncompromising intellectual standards. They are unbothered by the fact that legions of brilliant men and women down through the centuries—including rafts of skeptics and scoffers—have found it sufficiently challenging…