If you are like me, you look at the landscape of our society and wonder: what in the world has gone wrong?  We once were a country that honored God, the Bible, the morals taught in the Bible, and even though we had many problems and many individuals with problems; overall we trusted in the Lord and had time honored principles we lived by that derived from the teaching of Jesus and his apostles.  T...  Read More

Type your new text here. Who wouldn’t want Nicodemus as a follower of Jesus?  A member of Israel’s highest court, the Sanhedrin, made up of their elite elder statemen, he would have been a strong advocate of conservative Judaism.  Such a back-ground would make him influential and schooled for high level activity as a disciple.  Most of these elite rulers were offended by Jesus, eventually moving t...  Read More

If you are like me, you look at the landscape of our society and wonder: what in the world has gone wrong?  We once were a country that honored God, the Bible, the morals taught in the Bible, and even though we had many problems and many individuals with problems; overall we trusted in the Lord and had time honored principles we lived by that derived from the teaching of Jesus and his apostles.  T...  Read More

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 Can you help?   Master Provisions (a SHCC sponsored mission) has made a request.  They have asked individuals to help orphans in Ukraine.  Once after looking around at my nice home and surroundings and wondering if I did enough to help others less fortunate, my Uncle Ron told me:“Don’t beat yourself up about what you have, just give when God gives you the opportunity.”  I try to live by that.  I ...  Read More

I was at McDonald’s recently to grab an unhealthy lunch, noticing someone I knew in line ahead of me.  After ordering we visited a bit while waiting on our food.  We commiserated about health issues and then he said, “I’ve decided not to worry about my health; when it’s my time to go it’s my time to go. God has a plan for our lives, and I just need to stop worrying.”Now, I agree with one thing.  T...  Read More

Missions – As far as faith goes, it’s where the rubber meets the road, where faith takes flight, where you can get your hands dirty in service to others.  My husband and I are getting ready to go to the International Conference on Missions (theicom.org).  This year, it is in Columbus, OH, from Nov 3rd – Nov 5th.  There we will be able to visit with missionaries supported by Southern Heights Christ...  Read More

There are several slogans that have come out of the Restoration Movement (a church fellowship that came out of a desire to abandon man made creeds and get back to New Testament teaching and guidelines for Christianity), this movement beginning in the early 1800’s.  One example of such a slogan is: Where the Bible speaks, we speak, and where the Bible is silent, we are silent (or allow varying opin...  Read More

In our modern culture we find many people who call themselves “Christian” but who do not want to comply with the guidelines for faithful Christian living described by Jesus and his apostles.  They want what David Faust in a recent Christian Standard article called an “un-angry God.”  This term comes from a reaction to the famous sermon by Jonathan Edwards in 1741 entitled “Sinners in the Hands of ...  Read More

Maybe you remember this from Jonathan Swift’s satire called Gulliver’s Travels.  The Lilliputians (little people) believe Gulliver’s clock is his god.  Why?  Because he seldom does anything without referring to his clock.  He tells them that it points out the time for all his actions.  This response provided a picture of how enslaved such people had become to time management.  It raises the questi...  Read More

What is a sieve?  Well, my freshman year in college the dorm RA (resident assistant) was named Jim Sieve, but of course, that’s not what we’re after here.  If you do much cooking, maybe you know what the word means.  According to the dictionary, a sieve is a utensil consisting of a wire mesh held within a frame, used for straining solids from liquids.  In other words, a filter. The story is told o...  Read More

Indeed, all Christians are saints, as the Bible uses the word.  But as we know, through the ages the Catholic church usurped that word making it unique for those who lived exemplary lives, at least in the mind of the authorities.  To be a saint meant the officials of the church had decided the person fit their criteria and were deemed a “saint.”So, when I call this Cross Point “Sayings of the Sain...  Read More