The greatest miracle of the Bible is that the prophets of Israel could keep a religion as clean as a hounds tooth amid all the corruption and idolatry of the nations surrounding them.

We should ask ourselves three questions before we speak: Is it true? Is it kind? Does it glorify Christ?

Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence.

Prayer is speaking to God - but sometimes He uses our times of prayerful silence to speak to us in return.

Every successful work of God must have opposition.

Please join me in praying for America, that we will turn our hearts back toward God.

In my family we got up in the mornings around three o'clock and went out to the barns to bring the cows in and milk. In high school I milked about twenty cows every morning and about twenty in the afternoon when I got home. I have wonderful memories from those early days when my parent's influence was so strong.