“My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back, let him know that whoever brings back a sinner from the error of his ways has saved a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins” (James 5:19, 20). There are several Chrisans who, for whatever reason are presently wandering from God and have cut themselves off from his people. They may fool themselves into thinking everything is all right, but deep in th

A couple of weeks ago, Laura and I returned to our house after Sunday morning worship services. As I exited my car in the garage, my nose immediately sensed a foul odor, that of some dead creature. Because it happened before, my first thought was that a mouse had partaken of the “treats” left behind by the exterminators and had crawled somewhere and expired. I looked in the places I thought would hold the evidence and I found nothing. I continued to smell the dead creature th

Years ago, and on more than one occasion, I drove into the church building parking lot to see one of two cars I recognized. Toward the end of the time period to which I am referring, it was either a Green Ford Taurus or a Gold Buick LaSabre. One of those cars would be sitting in the parking lot, giving silent testimony concerning its owner and her friend who was with her. It was saying that its owner, in either case an elderly Christian lady, was with her friend and they were