Sooner or later a child who hears a sermon on the Ethiopian eunuch will ask that dreaded question. “Mom, what is a eunuch?” Parents are...

One of my granddaughters had two imaginary friends when she was a child. Their names were David and Elizabeth. She loved to make up...

Paul asked the brethren at Corinth, “Are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?” (I Cor. 6:2). There is much to learn from this...

Names of tragic events have come to symbolize calamity—Waterloo, Armageddon, and Pearl Harbor. For over twenty years the numbers 9/11...

Jesus did. He mixed publicly with all kinds of people and taught them. But one thing is sure: while He met people where they were in...

“There is no new thing under the sun.” Ecclesiastes 1:9 “And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose...

Voter fraud is not new. We should not be surprised. Politics brings out the worst in people—pride, greed, lust for power, and dishonesty....

“Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. ‘Honor your father and mother,’ which is the first commandment with promise:...

“It’s sad because they have no young people at that congregation.” How many times have you heard or made that comment? It’s...

Carl W. Wade One of the most tragic figures of antiquity is that of King David in his role as a father. Although for the greater portion...

They were an odd couple. He was harsh but she was kind. He was unreasonable, but she was sensible. He was selfish, but she was...

I heard a foreign language teacher say that a child generally speaks his first language better by the age of six than he will ever speak...

In 1876 a business man decided to sell a food product in clear glass bottles instead of colored ones which were common at the time. He...

Almost every time I feel a strong urge to write on an issue that really needs to be talked about, I later find that someone else said it...

Church shootings are always tragic but they are not new. One case occurred in Dallas, Texas in 1899. William Lipscomb, Jr., the nephew of...

The title may sound like the roof needs repairing, but the lesson is about a more serious problem. The nation of Syria was at war with...

The word autonomous means self-governing. Though this word is not used in the Bible, the idea is taught in Scripture. We rightly say that...

An article entitled “Where did the people go?” appeared in the Christian Chronicle of May 2022. It sounded a familiar alarm: declines in...

It is good to pay tribute to a brave soldier who died many years ago. She fought a good fight and endured many hardships, including...

Raising children to live right is a hard job in an evil world. It always has been. There are times when this training is more difficult...