Have you ever told someone that they “ought to be ashamed of themselves”? Or maybe you’ve had someone tell you, that “you ought to be ashamed of yourself”. Between the two, the answer is likely “YES” for everyone.

The fact is that sometimes we should be ashamed. When an adult is caught cheating on their taxes, or a child is caught cheating on a test... shame is well-placed. Those people “ought to be ashamed.”

But sometimes we can have misplaced shame and be ashamed of things that we shouldn’t be. An Olympic runner from a small country, who tries his best…

As Christians we are commanded to be a praying people: "Be careful for nothing; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God" (Phi 1. 4: 6).

So, it is clear that we are to pray. But how often and for how long? "Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks: for this is the will or God … " (1 Thess. 5:16-18). "Without ceasing" must…

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The next day, John stood with two of his disciples. And look­ing at Jesus as He walked, he said, “Behold the Lamb of God!” The two disciples heard him speak, and they followed Jesus…One of the two who heard John speak, and followed Him, was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. He first found his own brother Simon, and said to him, “We have found the Messiah”…And he brought him to Jesus. (John 1:35-37, 40-42)

This brief narrative in John’s gospel is one of only a tiny number of passages that specifically record something…

ARE ALL RELIGONS EQUAL?
(By Mike Baggett)

Men say many things which God does not say. Man says that Judaism, Christianity and Islam are just religions that teach basically the same things and are all headed to the same place in the afterlife. Does God view these religions as equal and all headed to heaven?

Those who throw out such careless remarks are not likely very serious about their religion or about going to heaven themselves. To say that Judaism, Christianity and Islam are religions with the same goals is to…

Have you noticed the singular lack of consequences in almost every system…

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Did you ever have a teacher in school who made you enjoy a subject in a way you hadn't before?  My 9th grade English teacher did that for me with reading, and the director was a huge part of why I loved band.  Most of all, my 11th grade history teacher instilled a love for knowledge of the past in me that was non-existent before and has grown ever since.  They all cared deeply about their subjects and wanted their students to grow.  But caring and esire were only part of what made them successful.  They also shared one other…

In Acts 17, Luke relates Paul’s visit to the city of Athens. It is interesting to notice, the way in which the people of Athens (especially the philosophers) are described by Luke. As they offered to allow Paul to address them on Mars’ Hill they said to him, “May we know what this new teaching is which you are proclaiming? For you are bringing some strange things to our ears; so we want to know what these things mean.”

Luke then explains, “Now all the Athenians and the strangers visiting there used to spend their time in nothing other…

My memory often fails to serve me as well as I would like, but I vividly remember an event, which occurred almost 40 years ago. We were attending a basketball game, and a group of girls from our high school took the court and performed a routine to music that was nothing short of embarrassing. I knew these girls. They were my daughter’s friends and classmates (she was not with them on this occasion). I considered them to be “good girls”, but no one would have guessed it by the way they were dressed (undressed) or by the…

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