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When I think of the New Year, I ask myself, “Has your vision enlarged?” As we get physically older our vision often becomes dim and challenged in various ways. However, if we walk by faith, our spiritual vision to look beyond this world should become enlarged when it comes to the spiritual, unseen realm. I […]
It is that time of the year when we have a choice to look back at what was so. Many make some type of resolution to change, direct, or complete an aspect of their life that they are unhappy, unsatisfied or frustrated with. Since it is a new year, they start out of the gate […]
God’s Word makes it clear that we know in part. The great conflict is that for the most part we think we know what we need to know to be right in a matter, when in reality we know very little. There are those who perceive they have the proper knowledge to make sound judgments […]
We are entering that time of the year when life gets a bit crazy. I don’t know about you, but my life is never at a standstill. It is like a running stream at times and a rushing river at other times. There are periods I can rest a bit when I hit a slow-moving […]
The problem with the society we live in is that it wants to be entertained. If entertainment is not constantly pacifying it, then it begins to become listless or restless. It can’t be content because it operates in sensationalism and demands instant gratification because in the selfish mind of such individuals, they deserve the best. […]
We do indeed live in some very challenging times. We are watching much of prophesied events unfold before our eyes. For generations we have been hearing about the coming of Jesus. To each generation it seems like the same old, same old warnings that their parents and grandparents before them heard and yet we are […]
Part 1 By Rayola Kelley What is your attitude towards the Word of God? When I first became a Christian, the main emphasis of the small church I attended was that I needed to know the Word of God. They encouraged memorization, learning where the books of the Bible were, and reading it from Genesis […]
We have been looking at expectation, anticipation and participation. In February’s article I did not bring out this particular theme because I was dealing with the subject of love, but love is very much a part of the aspect of what we expect, as well as anticipate, and to what extent we participate in our […]
Have you ever heard the story behind the song? “The Love of God?” In 1917, a man by the name of Frederick M. Lehman who was a pastor and businessman wrote this song. As a pastor he oversaw a poor flock, and as a business man he had lost everything and was close to financial […]
In last month’s, November’s The Bottom Line, I dealt with the subject of liberalism in our faith due to how we handle and approach the Word of God. We may not realize it, but we do take liberty with God’s Word. We choose what we are going to believe, what doctrinal preference we have when […]