What is the most difficult of God's commandments to keep in the 21st Century? No, I'm not talking about the Ten that God handed down on Mt. Zion. They're all plenty hard to keep, some harder than others, but they're not what I'm thinking of here. This is one of the most basic one of…
The young dad, not yet in his mid-30s, sat unsuspectingly in the church pew on that Sunday morning, unaware that the course of his life was about to change. These days, you might think a gun was involved. But there wasn't. Instead, there was a sword. On that summer Sunday in 1994, the pastor pulled…
Running a race. The phrase paints a lot of mental pictures, doesn't it? Men and women, all dressed in bright colors, running on the same track, in the same direction, at the same time. Someone wins, the rest lose. Then there are the marathon runners. Twenty-six-point-two miles of just you and the course. Running alone.…
Mike G. Smith 