Ed's Sermons and Things

How Much Is a Picture Really Worth?

A preacher friend and his wife, both now deceased, were listening to a lecture on the value of visuals in teaching and preaching. The lecturer referred to the old saw: A picture is worth a thousand words. My friend said…

What Has Happened to Ethics in Our Vulgar Age?

Robert Fitch, Philosopher of Ethics, is quoted by Ravi Zacharias in The Harvard Veritas Forun as follows: “Ours is an age where ethics has become obsolete. It is superseded by science, deleted by psychology, dismissed as emotive by philosophy. It…

A Man’s Works Burned While He Is Saved

“If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.” (1 Corinthians 3:15). This verse is sometimes taken out of context to support the “once saved always saved”…

Trusting People Who Lost Your Trust

Love covers a multitude of sins, but does love require you to let yourself get burned over and over? Love is good will, wanting good things for the other person, but love does not mean we have to be vulnerable…

Signs, Providence and Chance

The difference between miraculous and providential events is a topic of discussion for many Christians. We often have difficulty understanding how God can be active in the day by day affairs of this world without performing miracles. Likewise, we find…