Last week I mentioned there are several informative opinions on who the Nicolaitans were and I suggested those who can should look it up themselves. Since there is more than one opinion, I’d have to publish all of them and it would take all my space and more, so I’m just going to say whoever they were and whatever they did, Jesus hated their deeds and their beliefs.

In a recent poll, Mississippi came in as number one as having the worst eating habits in the country. As a whole, we are a pretty well fed country. Well fed, but yet with so many unsatisfied. Something is missing from the die, but it has more to do with spiritual food than anything else.

Every year Christians in Blanco have lunches during Lent. The free will offering supports the Blanco Ministerial Alliance. Those offerings are given to people passing through Blanco who need help with gas, food or lodging. Blanco Good Samaritan Center serves the local community with financial help. Listed below are the times and places of the Lenten Lunches.

Disturbing headlines like these are enough to trouble us all: MOTHER TO GO ON TRIAL FOR POISONING HER CHILDREN RUINS OF COLLAPSED DANCE HALL YIELDS 43 BODIES KILLS WIFE, CHILD IN SLEEP AND THEN ENDS OWN LIFE No wonder anger and anxiety are epidemic. News like this feeds our fears and frustrations, making violence and despair predictable.

In Part 1 we managed to make it through the entire first chapter of Revelations, and I just wanted to note that verses 8, 11, part of 17, and all of 18, 19 and 20 (in Rev. 1) are in red letters, which denote Jesus speaking to the apostle John.

Rev 22:12-14 says, “And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.” The Greek word for works is “ergon” and means toil, labor, occupation, deeds, acts.

News of a triple tragedy in the lives of longtime friends sent me to the telephone to assure them of our concern and prayers. Their daughter, Carol, had died, the victim of a brain aneurism, a son-in-law had suffered a serious head injury in an automobile accident that required him to be placed in a nursing home and a newborn grandchild had undergone surgery for a malignant brain tumor.

A man was struggling with a washing machine at the doorway of his house. A kind man stopped to help. After several minutes of fruitless effort the two stopped and just stared at each other in frustration. Finally, when they had caught their breath, the first man said to the homeowner: “We’ll never get this washing machine in there!” To which the homeowner replied: “In?

Acts 27:30-32 says, “And as the shipmen were about to flee out of the ship, when they had let down the boat into the sea, under color as though they would have cast anchors out of the foreship, Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.

In the King James Version of my Bible, the last of the 66 books in the Bible is called Revelations, and at the end of the book (chapter 22:18-19) is written “18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: 19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the ...

While studying Revelations, it’s my hope that you, dear reader, will not rely on me for understanding, but seek wisdom and knowledge from God through prayer and by reading and following references in your bibles! Jesus said seek and ye shall find. Revelation 1:1-20 (KJV) “1 The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John: 2 Who bare record of the wor ...

Does it seem to you that the world, maybe even your life, keeps lurching from one crisis to another? How can we stay calm and content in crises? Paul, the apostle, claimed he had found the answer to this question: “I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content,” he said (Philippians 4:11).

Luke 16:1-2, 10-12 “And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee?

While the speaker at a Wisconsin church Bible conference, I met a discouraged visiting minister who said he had just resigned as pastor of a church he had served for eleven years. During his time as pastor, the church had grown from only a few families to a sizeable congregation.

A young man who had much potential in the Roman army was told by his commander to gather sticks for a fire. He first was insulted and thought it below him to do so. His commander noticed his downcast look and took him aside and said, "If kindling wood is not gathered, the fire will not be started, if the fire is not started, a warm meal will not be provided on this cold evening, and the troops may be weakened in the night, and tomorrow in battle all may be lost!" His task was not so unimportan ...