Perth, Western Australia became known worldwide as the “City of Lights” U.S astronaut John Glenn told the world he had seen the city’s lights during his historic orbit around the earth on February 20th, 1962. To acknowledge the historic mission of the first American orbiting the globe, the citizens of Perth turned on their lights for Glenn to see all the way from space. In commemoration of that important event in history, Glenn made the same trip 36 years later and once again

My wife and I recently attended the wedding of a young Christian couple in Oklahoma. One neat thing they did during the ceremony was tie together three cords, which symbolized the strength that a “cord of three” has (Eccl. 4:12). A marriage that is knotted together with three strands, husband, wife, and God, is not easily broken. If God is put at the center of the marriage covenant, chances of life-long unity greatly increase. Such a concept applies to the whole of the family

As people, we seek many things. Among those are knowledge, happiness, money, as well as many other earthly attributes. The men and women of the first century church were no different, and in fact, they sought many spiritual gifts as well. Paul the Apostle addressed these gifts in chapter 13 of his first letter to the Corinthian church. Such gifts that the early Christians were seeking were prophecy, knowledge, speaking in tongues, as well as other divinely given gifts to hel