When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I am not afraid … (Ps. 56:3-4). A couple of days ago, my son asked me if there had ever before been something similar to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 1918, there was something called the Spanish plague which killed millions of people, I told him. Also, hundreds of years ago there was in Europe something called the Black Plague, which, in the same way, killed millions of people. I was aware of h

“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind” (2 Tim. 1:7 NKJV). Last week I was with a mission team from our church in Puerto Rico. We were helping families recover from Hurricane Maria that struck the island on September 20, 2017. We worked with All Hands & Hearts, a mission with bases around the world. We went back to base camp on Thursday evening to discover the mission base was temporarily closing operations. All Hands & He

“… but lay up for yourself treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also” (Mt. 6:20-21, NKJV; also see, Mt. 6:1-21). Our text is a part of Jesus Christ’s “Sermon On The Mount.” In his sermon, Jesus taught the disciples and the crowd what it truly meant “to live in relationship” with God the Father, and about how God wanted true believers to live in this world—wi