Bill Alderson, Baltimore With the 2020 presidential election right around the corner, it is important that Christians understand citizenship. As one born and raised in America, I was taught that we had a civic responsibility to our various government agencies, including voting in elections, serving on jury duty, and behaving...

Bill Alderson, Baltimore One of the most recognizable of Jesus’s parables is the Prodigal Son. Most of us have heard messages on the subject of a restored relationship with the Father using this parable as its text, but what if this particular lesson was intended to address the Jews? Since...

Bill Alderson, Baltimore On Saturday, September 26, a bunch of us from the church ventured down Interstate 95 to Washington, DC, to be part of a great gathering of Christians at the Mall to pray and to recognize together America’s need for God to move. It was a glorious display...

“Call out to your God! Perhaps your god will give a thought to us, that we may not perish.” These words came from the captain of a ship bound for Spain, according to Jonah 1:6. This vessel was caught in a violent storm and nearly everyone on board was hard...

Laura Hoffses, Baltimore The other day I was working out on my elliptical trainer when I noticed my cat walking past the open door and down the hallway. I wanted to say hi to her, so I called out “Pixie!” Her little head and shoulders had already passed the door...

The “Twilight Zone” featuring Rod Serling’s “from another world” commentary, peaked TV interest in a forgotten childhood. The Twilight Zone is an American media franchise based on the anthology television series created by Rod Serling. The episodes are in various genres, including fantasy suspense, science fiction, horror, and psychological thriller and fantasy tropes. The original series, shot entirely...

In Ephesus, there developed a model city church in a part of the world then known as Asia Minor, in what’s now part of Turkey. This was a seemingly solid group of Jesus followers, according to Revelation, Chapter 2. The people there reflected patience and strength. They were vibrant; there...

The world’s busy — it has always been this way. I trace its preponderance of activity back to none other than Cain. One of the first sons of Adam and Eve, Cain worked the soil, according to Genesis 4. He made himself a man of the dirt and labored somewhat...

These things I learned this week: That in the culture, individualism can be good, as long as I don’t make an idol of me. Culturally speaking, community is desired; but don’t make an idol of them. Who-a-person-is subjectively is discovered in receiving an objective identity; it is not found by...

A friendship features a level of security and many factors determine this. I can list the first 400 of these determiners but lets skip to the real good ones. People who are thankful, truly thankful, have a good chance at longevity. Why? It is because they have a very mature outlook...