Are You Comfortable Showing Mercy?

  Be merciful to me, but I am not so sure about showing it to you   By Don Ruhl   The Beatitudes in Matthew 5, which open the Sermon on the Mount, are more than perfect patterned platitudes. They speak of true life. He who does them not, does not have eternal life. Therefore, [...]

The World’s Most Successful Hypocrite

  No one knew the dastardly deed this man would commit   By Don Ruhl   How would you like to be the “familiar friend” mentioned in Psalm 41:9? David prophesied of the ultimate dastardly deed that a close friend would commit against his best friend. “Even my own familiar friend in whom I trusted, [...]

Suing God

A state senator sues God   By Don Ruhl   That is not a halo on Nebraska state senator Ernie Chambers’s head. What he wants to do is not angelic! It is a fan. According to an Associated Press article in the Grants Pass Daily Courier a state senator from Nebraska is suing God! The [...]

Building Your Child’s Character From the Inside Out (Part 5)

Training By Don Ruhl Why does anyone succeed at life? Someone trained him or her. Watch any child grow up and succeed at life. It did not happen by accident. In some cases, it happened in spite one’s parents. However, in the majority of cases, the parents and others trained those children. Knowing of the [...]

God and You

Focus on what God can do, not on what you cannot do By Don Ruhl The basis for this article was a chart that I found at a church in Texas. No name was on the chart. I have also added my own material. We put the emphasis upon what we can or cannot do, [...]

A Whale in Adel, Oregon

How did a whale end up over 200 miles inland? By Don Ruhl The Herald and News, September 29, 1999, page 7 (Klamath Falls, Oregon), carried an article, “A whale of a tale in Adel” by Jean Bilodeaux. You can read the article below. Where Is Adel, Oregon?  As the water would flow, it is [...]

Christians Look at the News

Wrestling against the darkness of our age Ephesians 6.12 By Don Ruhl Christians, we are at war! Was your first image that of the war on terror? Christians are at war in a far greater battle. Prepare to fight spiritual terrorists! We know the Bible says to put on the armor of God. Do we [...]

A Minor in “Gay Culture”

By Don Ruhl After considering the movement to teach the Bible in public school (Covered in another article http://thebiblemeditator.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/teach-the-bible-in-school/) and the subject of this article, we have to agree with Charles Dickens as he began A Tale of Two Cities, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the [...]

Loving God First

Good Housekeeping ran an article promoting love of God above all By Don Ruhl When one of our daughters was younger, she would say, “Dad, I love God and Jesus more than I love you.” She would say the same to her mother. She was not attempting to hurt us or put us down. Truly, [...]

Building Your Child’s Character From the Inside Out (Part 4)

Parental Influence By Don Ruhl Influences bombard our children. They are our children, but the world does not seem to care, influencing them in ways the world desires. Some of that we can control, especially when the children are young, but as they grow, it becomes more difficult. Therefore, we want to minimize those influences [...]