“I’m bored,” is what parents often hear from their children—usually about three days after summer vacation begins.  Of course, many of us today who are parents or grandparents probably never uttered such words and may have a difficult time relating to it.  We don’t...

This title of the 2014 Contending for the Faith lectureship book poses an all-important question for older members, as well as those who have newly become Christians.  The introduction states the goals of this vol-ume for brethren—“to keep them faithful to the...

On Sunday, April 20, the Orlando Sentinel published on the front page of the newspaper, “Two Views of Forgiveness.”  Yes, it is unusual to see a spiritual topic given such a prominent position in the newspaper, but in the publisher’s mind, it was evidently all right...