There was a time in my life when I absolutely hated reading! I couldn’t stand it, and I was really bad at it. It’s not that I couldn’t read or pronounce the words—because I could—but it was more that I couldn’t (or wouldn’t) force myself to sit down and read a book from cover to cover. To me, it was the most painful and arduous task and largest waste of time that I could possibly imagine. I was a math guy (I actually like it; so, I studied and became a mechanical engineer). But, rarely would you find me near a book, except for maybe my nightly Bible reading.

It wasn’t until about the age of twenty that I fully realized—as Mohler points out—that God has chosen to teach His people through the discipline of reading! From the inception of the Church, and throughout the Old Testament, God has instructed His people through the written Word. I had to do a heart check; I realized that God’s Word was available to me, that I was responsible to know it, and that I had to read it in order to know it. My heart and mind were awakened to the majesty of God and His Word. Have you come to this point in your life? Has the Bible gripped you in such a way that you cannot not read it!? If you are a Christian and you don’t like reading, then you need to do a heart check. To use Mohler’s words, “We’re not going to grow if we’re not reading and studying.”

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On a rainy Tuesday in November, my wife, who was six months pregnant with our first child, and I were in a head on collision. My wife was driving us back to school after lunch in our little, green Chevy Prism. I was talking when I heard her gasp; I looked up in time to see a Chevy 2500 pick-up truck spin out of control and begin sliding into our lane. Like a slow motion scene in a movie, I watched this behemoth bearing down on my wife and child, helpless to do anything but offer a prayer in the form of a fear, for lack of time to utter a word. [...]

In a recent article in CNN’s Opinion Section, the Reverend Jesse Jackson discusses his faith as it leads to his works.  At first glance it seems rather theologically correct.  The book of James does say that faith without works is dead right?  Interestingly enough (to write about), Jackson says that his works have always been and will always be intertwined into the civil rights movement in America. [...]