In the beginning, the Lord blessed man with a paradise garden to keep, trim, and enjoy. Only one prohibition was mentioned. Adam and Eve were not to eat of the "tree of the knowledge of good and evil" (Gen. 2:17). If they ate, they would lose their place in the garden and forfeit their right to the "tree of life." They would lose their lives and their special relationship with the Lord. This was the consequence. Sadly, they ate of the prohibited tree and paid the consequences.

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…

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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…

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…

An elderly gentleman who hated going to the doctor became ill. Finally agreeing to go, he was given a prescription to be taken daily for a month. Taking his first dose he nearly choked! So, he added a little water to it. His next dose was just as bad, so he added a little honey to it. He continued adding a little this, a little that, until it began to taste pretty good.

When he returned to the doctor for his checkup however, the doctor was puzzled as to why there was no progress made. "Did you take your…

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