Uplook

Tomorrow is Valentine's Day. Be sure to tell your loved ones how much you care for them. But what about our love for the lost? God reminded Jonah how easy it is to care more for things that have no eternal value (like gourds and...soap operas?) while souls all around...

My father tells a story from the war years and a thrilling illustration of the believer's arrival in Heaven.

The dear Irish woman had heard one message all her life. But it hadn't brought her peace. Then she heard a very different message, a message of simplicity and certainty and hope. But was it God's message? She asked Him to prove if it was. So God spoke to her—twice.

"Rightly dividing" the Word comes from two ideas: ortho meaning "right or proper"; tomounta means "to cut." Of course this tells us to make the careful distinctions God makes. What it DOESN'T mean is to cut out some of the words!

Martin Luther came to the breakfast table one morning but was served up some humble pie, compliments of his wise wife. Here's a good reminder that God's people are to be emissaries of His hope in this hopeless world.

It was Churchill who said, "Beware the sleeping dragon, for when she awakes the earth will shake." People in the West are getting frantic as they watch China seem to take over the world. But relax. God knows how to tame dragons.

Here's a true story about a preacher who was about to straighten out another brother...until the preacher went for a drive with him one day.

Mini-Message Monday: Your (One) New Year's Resolution (3 mins) — Rather than making a list of ambitious resolutions for 2023, how about we aim to be ambitious about this ONE resolution? We will be far more productive in the year ahead...

The mythical Janus says, "Look both ways before you cross the New Year." But be careful! Some objects may be closer than you think.