How often do you pray? How long do you pray when you do pray? Have you ever given much thought to these things?

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…

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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