Christian, when the hardness of life shakes you and leaves you spent, look to the one who will be present and active in the new Jerusalem...

The 1960s had passed, but the rebellious mindset of that time was just getting started. Young people were restless and ready to challenge old established ways. Mr. Murphy sat like a stone wall preventing students from venturing into danger. He urged us to think through our decisions.

Philemon needed Paul as Paul needed Philemon. I needed Bill as Bill needed me.

As the ancient Israelites could follow the Shepherd and call on Him on their behalf, so the modern Christian can follow the Good Shepherd and ask him to “give ear” and “shine forth” in time of need.

A young Ukrainian woman, Iryna Zarutska, was brutally murdered on a train in North Carolina. Nineteen days later, Charlie Kirk, noted Christian apologist, was gunned down as he answered questions posed by college students in Utah. The horror of these two events should cause us to reflect on many things. Among them is this: What is the result of generations of belief in evolution? In other words, what is evolution’s fruit?

“And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring…” (Acts 6:1)

What to do when murmuring arises? Acts 6 shows us two powerful principles that the early church used, and the results were astounding. Astounding results are not guaranteed, of course. God may have other things in mind to accomplish, but the principles are rock solid.

The Lord Jesus once asked a crowd, “What shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” He might as well have been addressing passengers on a plane.

More and more people insist that common sense will set things right. Here’s how it works: The first person comments that the world has gone haywire concerning some issue. (It can be any hot topic–gender issues, border security, climate change, and on and on.) The second person responds that common sense will fix the problem. Nods and thumbs up follow, and the two people are satisfied that common sense is strong enough for the job. Is it?

The first eleven chapters of Genesis tell big news: God creates everything, sees humankind fallinto sin, judges humanity by a global flood, spares only Noah and his family, and watchespeople try to build a tower to heaven their own way. But bigger news in Genesis will follow.