Have you ever read your Bible and not meaning to you start thinking of something else?    Well, not long ago I was reading through Nehemiah 6-8, and when I got to chapter 7 the writer started listing all the names of the children of Israel that came back to Jerusalem from the Babylonian captivity.  The chapter looks like this:

Who came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Azariah, Raamiah, Nahamani, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispereth, Bigvai, Nehum, Baanah. The number, I say, of the men of the people of Israel was this;
The children of Parosh, two thousand an hundred seventy and two.
The …

Can you see the vast number of soldiers in the Valley of Elah as they have aligned themselves against the Philistines? All of them want victory against the enemy, but not one of them wants to fight this massive behemoth known as Goliath. That includes Saul, the king of Israel, the one who stood head and shoulders above the entire nation. Saul didn’t want to fight either, and for good reason. Goliath was a champion of war, an intimidating creature, and a giant from the enemy territory. But when David (the little shepherd boy from Bethlehem) enters the circumstance things …

The work of Satan is to kill, steal, and destroy.  He is a murderer of wholesome things, a roaring lion who prowls about for victims, a robber of joy and peace, and a consummate liar.  Jesus declared in John 8:44 that he is the father of lies, or quite literally, the originator of deception.  Every lie told is done so out of the dark character of the prince of this world.  Because he can transform himself into the “angel of light” he is able to manipulate our thoughts, our attitudes, and our perception of reality.

His wicked words to …

Robert Courtney is not a name you want to be associated with.  Over a nine-year period he diluted the medication of cancer patients.  It was estimated that he altered over 98,000 prescriptions, and affected nearly 4,200 patients.  Seventeen deaths can be traced back to his diluted formula.  He made close to twenty million dollars through his fraudulent behavior, but was finally caught and sentenced to thirty years in prison.