Author: Gene Stockton (Gene Stockton)

Ready or not here He will come As children we played hide and seek for hours with our neighborhood friends. If you’ve ever played this game, you already know this but one person would count and everyone else hides. When the person got done counting, as he prepared to look for and tag the people in...

The Altars of False Gods Do you bow at the altars of false gods? You may be thinking, before I answer, who or what are these false gods? Well, let’s start with the Bible. There are approximately 50 false gods mentioned in the Bible. You may be familiar with the names of some of them...

  Mirror, Mirror on the Wall Before we get started, let’s get on the same page. In case you’re wondering, I’m not interested in replaying the Snow White movie for you or exalting the so-called magic mirror on the wall. However, I am concerned about what we are beholding. Why? When we truly behold the...

  Knock-Off In case you were somehow unaware, there is a major market for knock-off merchandise. According to a recent report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the trade of fake merchandise has slowly risen over the last few years and now accounts for 3.3% of global trade. You may be thinking 3.3% doesn’t sound...

  Christian in Name Only is not Christian It may be hard to believe but people all around you, maybe even including you, call themselves Christians but do not actually follow Jesus. The evidence of salvation (James 2), to include the denial of self and taking up the cross daily (Luke 9:23), is largely missing....