Dear MSBC, Well, it’s January 2022 and we face those dreaded New Year’s resolutions once again. I don’t know if you have made any for this year or if you annually participate in making any or not. Some people choose not to because those same resolutions are routinely broken by mid-January! According to a recent Fox News poll, many Americans are fed up with New Year’s resolutions for that very reason. If you are…
Dear MSBC, Well, Christmas is once again upon us. Hey! It’s time for some yuletide cheer! There is no better time of the year to celebrate our Lord Jesus and share Him with others than during the Christmas season. And I hope you conscientiously are doing just that as we speak. Yes, Christmas time is here! As such, this is the perfect time to get back into God’s Holy Word, the Bible, if…
Dear MSBC, It has been said that in human relationships it is better for communication purposes to listen twice as much as we speak. Now this is true for human interaction, but not so much when it comes to prayer between Christians and God. Last month we saw that for us to have a healthy relationship with God, we must take time to listen to Him speak to us, like we must attentively listen…
Dear MSBC, Let me ask you something: as a Christian, where are you in your relationship with God? Is your relationship close and growing or distant and unsatisfying? Is God in the forefront of your life or merely in the backdrop of your existence? Come on now. Let’s be honest! The Bible is clear that a close, growing relational connection with God (Prov. 8:17; Jer. 9:23-24; 29:13; 2 Pet. 3:18) requires an…
Dear MSBC, Approximately a thousand years ago, the famed Norseman, Erik the Red (named for his red hair, beard, and fiery temper), led a group of Vikings to set sail from Norway to go to what we know today as Greenland. At the time, Greenland was largely an uninhabitable island. The Norse colonies stablished there by Erik the Red were the first permanent European settlements. These colonies, numbering about 3,000 people, lived on 300-400…
