The Gathering Place Where Family Matters

“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows” (1 Timothy 6:10). “I grew up poor and vowed that I would not live that way as an adult,” the CEO/owner said with a gruff voice. […]

“Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your Heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much better than they?” (Matthew 6:26). Her life was never an easy matter or so it seemed to Jordan. From the time that she had asked the Lord […]

“Thou shalt remember the LORD thy God” (Deuteronomy 8:18). It seems like a simply-stated directive, doesn’t it? The children of Israel were to remember the Lord their God. The word “remember” basically means to “keep before one’s mind, to mention, to recall.” Doesn’t that really speak to your heart? After all the many awesome ways […]

“In Whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace” (Ephesians 1:7). I was sitting in the chaplain’s office of one of the local hospitals. We had several members hospitalized and was looking up their room numbers. Though it happened long ago, I can remember it […]

Marlene had been a ridiculer and scoffer of spiritual things. She called Christians a bunch of hypocrites. She scoffed at the gospel and flatly rejected the claims of Christ upon her life. Until that day! Sitting at her desk at work, suddenly a piercing pain flew from her chest into her back and up into […]