Charlie Van Dyke
By Rick Lowery, Ph.D.

As a minister and Bible scholar, I'm proud that the president has publicly endorsed marriage equality.

Some sincere and thoughtful people of faith are not convinced by clinical research suggesting that "sexual orientation" is deeply imbedded in the human psyche and largely beyond conscious control.

Others accept the resear... read more
Debbie Watt
He who created them from the beginning made them male and female and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and his mother and will stick to his wife, and the two will be one flesh’ ... Therefore, what God has yoked together let no man put apart.”—Jesus Christ, as recorded at Matthew 19:4-6.
IN OUR world of changing standards, marriage ... read more
Debbie Watt
The writer of this psalm, David, was a shepherd as a youth. He knew the needs of sheep and the responsibilities of a shepherd. David, who had experienced God’s care in his life, wrote what has been called “a psalm of assurance or trust.” The divine name, Jehovah, appears at the beginning and at the end of the psalm. (Verses1,6) The words between de... read more
Debbie Watt
TRUE success is the achievement of the very best way of life, one that results from the application of God’s standards and that harmonizes with his purpose for us. A person who leads such a life, the Bible says, will “become like a tree planted by streams of water, that gives its own fruit in its season and the foliage of which does not wither, and... read more
Debbie Watt
“A calm heart is the life of the fleshly organism.”—PROVERBS 14:30.
“A heart that is joyful does good as a curer.”—PROVERBS 17:22.
● Those simple but profound statements were spoken by King Solomon of Israel about three thousand years ago. But are they true? What does modern medicine say?
Concerning a calm heart versus one given to anger, the Journ... read more
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