Every pastor and church knows the need for a good pair of jumper cables to be available at church functions.  I could not even begin to count how many times I have had someone come to me after a church service to tell us that they need help with a dead battery. There are always those around who are...

The apostle John had a bird's eye view of truth. He lived for three years so closely to Christ that he could, at times, feel His very breath. John 8:32-36 And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free. They answered Him, "We are Abraham’s offspring (descendants) and have never been...

Father's Day started in the early 20th century in the United States to celebrate fatherhood and to complement Mother's Day. It was first celebrated on June 19, 1910 in Spokane, Washington at the YMCA by Sonora Smart Dodd. She heard about Mother's Day in 1909, and told her pastor she thought fathers...

I would love to share my father's story with you since I was unable to do so last Sunday. My father, Edward Charles O'Ryan, was born August 8, 1928, in Dayton, Ohio. He and my mother, Jane, raised 5 children. Dad was a semi-professional wrestler in the days of Bobo Brazil, The Sheik, Nature Boy...

50 years!!! Now that's a rarity that deserves to be celebrated. To say that time flies, only slightly describes the way I feel. My mom and dad have a love that has inspired, motivated, and challenged, not just me, but all who know them. I can count on one hand the arguments they've had in their...

These are the collected thoughts of Evangelist Charles Finney, written a hundred years ago. Truth has a way of enduring time and custom. 1. God has expressly informed us that if we regard iniquity in our hearts, He will not hear us. 2. You are uncharitable. 3. Censorious. 4. Self-dependent. 5...

You would have a hard time adding to the word Mother. The word, Mother, stands alone like the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. The word Mother, to Benjamin was only that which he learned from how much his father loved his mother, Rachel. You have to believe that he was able to see his mother...

In the 1970’s, I stood on the unfinished roof of Sister Bustamante’s church, in Monterey, Mexico. Hundreds of people would come to the meeting that night. People would go back to their homes and bring the sick to be prayed for. Eventually, they would take me through the dark unlit streets of that...