On January 22, we will mark the anniversary of the insane and infamous Roe v. Wade decision of the U.S. Supreme Court (1973) which legalized the senseless slaughter of unborn babies for virtually any reason. As a result, more than sixty-three million babies have been deprived of the most basic of rights, the right to life. Truthfully, the most dangerous place in America is a mother’s womb. If you count up all the American lives lost in all the wars fought since 1776, it would not be as many as the number of abortions. Thankfully, conservative, sensible pro-life advocates are intensely anti-abortion. Many of us have stood up again and again to lend our voices in support of the innocent and he
In the November 29 issue I gave you Part One of “Making Home a Happy Place.” Since I wanted to write a Christmas column and a New Year’s column, I decided to hold Part Two until now. In Part One I covered three things, namely, (1) a solid foundation, (2) established order, and (3) love with out limits. Now let’s look at four more things that go into making a happy home. 4. A Place of Grace Even though we may have a home built upon a solid foundation with the right order established and great love for one another, it will also need to be a place where grace is extended. We will all need that! “Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt” (Col. 4:6). There will be mistakes and miss
Hebrews 10:25 and the instruction to be faithful to church is a commonly known passage of Scripture. “Let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience,and our bodies washed with pure water. "Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) “And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: “Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.”—Vss. 22–25. We know that we are to be in the Lord’s house for church every time the doors are open. However, th
