The 94th General Assembly will convene for a special session on Monday, September 11 at 11 a.m. In the call for the session, the Governor outlines several proposals to be introduced including tax cuts, amending the Arkansas Freedom of Information Act, and legislation addressing vaccine mandates. The tax cut proposal to be introduced would reduce…
This past Sunday I preached a message, “Will you be caught up when Christ calls?” Many people fear the future-often with good cause. God’s time clock is winding down, and the Bible tells us there are several events that will occur as that happens. For believers these will be glorious events; unbelievers will have quite…
“I have hidden your Word in my heart that I might now sin against you.” (Psalm 119:11) First and foremost, the Word of God is essential. Going beyond reading scripture, the truth has to permeate every aspect of life. Working to apply biblical principles to daily living takes effort, line by line, precept by precept,…
“…For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away” (James 4:14, NKJV). If you were given $86,400 every day, how would you spend it? You would not be allowed to save it from day to day; the dollars you did not use would be…
House members will enter the third week of the 2023 Regular Session on Monday. In the second week, several bills passed the House and are now making their way to the Senate. On Wednesday, the House passed HB1018. This bill will allow members of municipal fire department bomb squads to carry weapons while responding to…
We live in a world today, which tries to say too much with too little. Consequently, few listen. Sometimes the best sermons are the ones left unspoken. A member of a certain church, who previously had been attending services regularly, stopped going. After a few weeks, the pastor decided to visit him. It was a…
After ministering in a good friends funeral service this past week, his son sent me this and told me his Dad had wrote this for him and left it in his Bible. “To my son that I love” “God’s ten most wanted men:” The man who puts God’s business above any other business The man…
Ready or not, some day it will come to an end. There will be no more sunrises, no minutes, hours or days. All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone else. Your wealth, fame and temporal power will shrivel to irrelevance. It will not matter what you owned or what…
No hate. No envy. No jealousy. No bitterness. No greed. No pride. No violence. No competition. No covetousness. No strife. No lying. No cheating. No murder. No stealing. No boredom. No loneliness. No poverty. No pain. No anxieties. No depression. No inequality. No political parlors. No fatigue. No failure. No grief. I could live life…
the Bible teaches that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is for all believers, and it is God’s gift to help us to be what we can’t be in our own strength. It is ironic that today the Baptism of the Holy Spirit divides the body of Christ and is so controversial-in the book of…
Sooner or later we all face the same temptation. The same problems of human life reoccur in every generation. Psalm 73 records the experiences of a good man, who in an evil hour was sorely tempted to call it quits. He felt heaven terribly mistreated the person who was trying to do the right thing.…
“For I know whose I have believed and I am convinced he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that day.” (2 Timothy 1:12) “Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering for He who promised is faithful.” (Hebrews 10:23) Our profession of faith goes hand in…
Humankind tends to expect solutions to their problems to come from political leaders, religious leaders, or someone with star status. God’s Word tells us in Psalm 146, verses 3 and 4, “Don’t put your confidence in powerful people; there is no help for you there. When they breath their last, they return to the earth,…
“To prepare a mansion” Jesus said, “ll go, If it were not true I would have told you so. Just a little while to linger here below, I’m getting ready to leave this world.” How to leave this sinful world: With God’s approval through Jesus Christ. (Ephesians 2:8,9) With a record of dedicated service for…
I woke recently during the night to the sound of rain. After all the very hot and dry weather we have been experience, it sounded wonderful. I was reminded of a time of a great drought during the days of Elijah and Ahab. Elijah said something very interesting about the sound of rain. It’s recorded…
The Governor is calling the General Assembly into an Extraordinary Session next week to address the use of surplus funds to provide tax relief and funding for school safety measures. The Arkansas School Safety Commission was reinstated in the wake of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Members of the original commission created in March 2018…
A focus of some reality television shows is restoring old cars. Investors with deep pockets team up with talented master mechanics to create machines that are the envy of antique car lovers. Old cars ravaged by time and the elements are restored to beautiful machines they once were. Time and circumstances have a way of…
To achieve good health, it may seem wise to follow the advice of “experts.” But most experts overlook the biggest problem-a lack of relationship with God. The Apostle, Paul put it this way, “Physical training is good, but training for godliness is much better, promising benefits in this life and in the life to come.”…
The heat of summer makes work even harder. Rising temperatures and humidity drain away energy and make us wish for cooler weather and even winter. The Psalmist David used the stress of summer heat to illustrate God’s judgment on sin. “Day and night your hand of discipline was heavy on me. My strength evaporated like…
The world is full of people who have been beaten down. They don’t believe anyone cares about them anymore. They have been told by teachers of humanism that they are animals and they believe it. They don’t dream much anymore. There is no sparkle to a new day. They don’t look forward to tomorrow. Somewhere…
Several little girls were playing house one day, taking turns playing various family members, when one of them said to another, “Now you be the daddy.” The little girls thought for a minute and then said, “I don’t want to be daddy. I want to talk, and besides, what would I use for a remote…
