The Depew Church of Christ recently hosted Lanny Tucker of Eastern European Missions, who shared many exciting stories about providing free Bibles in people’s heart languages with us, including this one: In May 2023, I had the privilege of traveling to Serbia to meet some of our ministry partners distributing Bibles. Drasko Djenovic, our Serbian co-worker guided us to meet nine ministry partners working for Christ in a culture where about 85% practice a very nominal Orthodox faith.

In the world we live in, people seem to be so beaten down by the everyday struggles of life. Some seem to be so tired and weary.

We were created by our God to be different from each other. We all have different personalities, likes, loves, dislikes and downright detests. Unfortunately, too much of the time the detests are each other.

Many radio stations for years broadcast a newscaster/ commentator named Paul Harvey. He would begin his program, “And now, the rest of the story.” He gave startling news items hinting at our perverse civilization.

Matthew 14:22-33 (NLT): “ 22 Immediately after this, Jesus insisted that His disciples get back into the boat and cross to the other side of the lake, while He sent the people home. 23 After sending them home, He went up into the hills by himself to pray. Night fell while He was there alone. 24 Meanwhile, the disciples were in trouble far away from land, for a strong wind had risen, and they were fighting heavy waves. 25 About three o’clock in the morning Jesus came toward them, walking on the water. 26 When the disciples saw Him walking on the water, they were terrified. In their fear, they cried out, “It’s a ghost!” 27 But Jesus spoke to them at once.

Who determines right and wrong? Is there any absolute truth? Pollster George Barna discovered that nearly threequarters of all Americans reject the concept of absolute truth. To the vast majority of Americans truth is relative.

It was a bright spring afternoon in 1959. One boy in the small group of three came up with a remedy for their boredom. He convinced Nicky and Marilyn that they should accept his unprecedented idea of walking to a neighborhood duck pond. Their amazing adventure had begun. Never mind they were only five-year-old children!

Picking Up the Pieces Grief is a part of life. There are so many things humans grieve over, some intensely personal like the loss of a long time pet or a stolen family heirloom, and others that are familiar to many such as time to trade in the family car in which you took many family vacations.

Unnecessary suffering ... when mourning the death of a loved one ...

When he was drunk, the foolish young man preached that God didn’t exist. He’d arrogantly proclaim, “There’s no God up there! You are your own god!” he’d declare. The young man and coworkers would get high or drunk. They’d tell disgusting jokes and use filthy words. He was a sinner, but he didn’t know it.