“Come, you children, listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the LORD”
PSALM 34:11
Being the brand new pastor of the most prestigious church in town, I was trying hard to watch my P’s &Q’s. I had made my mind up BEFORE taking …

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As I was finishing up this edition’s humor column for the “Director’s Cut,” a discussion popped up on one of the Internet mailing lists I subscribe to that addressed seriously, some of the issues I had just been poking fun at; advanced education for Christians. The discussion list focuses …

Covenant Kids and Christian Character
Rev. Brian M. Abshire
One of the most subtle and therefore insidious errors that sincere Christians can fall into when trying to be godly parents is to think that they can create Christian character in their children. There is an entire home-school curriculum (very popular in some …

Introduction
Many years ago, when God gave us our first child, I made a silent promise to stop giving advice on child-rearing until AFTER my own kids were safely grown up, educated, married and still active in the faith. Frankly, I have always been less than impressed with …

Rev. Brian M. Abshire
She was a gorgeous young thing named, believe it or not, “Barbie.” Her dad was the skipper of an oil tanker, just back from a three month trip. And I could tell right off he wasn’t much impressed with the long haired, bell bottomed, leather vest wearing, “Pimples R …

Rev. Brian M. Abshire
“The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.”
The problem is not a new one. There is a world to be rebuilt, but few Christians willing to do anything more than hold hands …

I still remember the day in 1973 when I knelt by my bunk in my dorm room at Kelly AFB in San Antonio and asked Christ to forgive me for my sins. Though having attended a fundamentalist church as a child (and having “prayed the prayer” many times), I …