Author name: Philip Conley

Life’s circumstances can skew our thinking, and our reactions to the things happening around us sometimes cause us to think things must be a certain way for things to happen.  Naturally speaking, there are things that don’t go together, but the Lord in His kind providence can bring the supernatural out of a naturally impossible […]

One of the surest ways to either gender success or fall prey to failure comes down to the nature of priorities in our lives.  Successful people in different fields understand where priorities should fall, while perpetually failing people blame their lack of priorities on other people for their own problems.  In Ruth 3:18, we read

Truly, we live in times where promises are broken, truces aren’t kept, and someone’s word is not nearly set by like it once was and still should be.  The Bible did tell us that this circumstance was coming (II Timothy 3), but one of the side effects and products of this culture is that people

When it comes to making decisions at the crossroads of our lives, we sometimes have a complicated rubric that we employ to decide what “should” be done, “could” be done, “may” be done, and so forth.  As the household of faith, we certainly should have the highest strain and filter with what the word of

Today’s culture sadly either wants to ignore consequences or claim that they don’t exist.  Two of the great lies that the devil promulgated throughout the general populace are: 1. What I do only affects me, and 2. It isn’t SO bad.  When it comes to right and wrong, people sadly see a lot of gray

Laying a Foundation One of the elements of life is that certain things cannot build without something in place first.  In academia, these are courses called pre-requisites that must be taken before the advanced courses can be pursued.  In a professional working career, one must understand the work on the ground before supervising the work

Beloved, What Highlights the Church? When people ask questions like, “What is the church?”  “What does the church look like?”  “How do we know if something is the church?”, there are a number of ways that one could answer those queries.  Elder Hassell gives a list of identifying marks in his history, and they are

Not every season of life is the same, and during different points of our “calendar,” things happen that are outside of the normal routine.  Admittedly, looking forward to the Camp Meeting this week and thinking about what goes into it and hoped to come out of it, the ideas of offerings and feasts in the

One of the most misunderstood events – even by many Christians and God-fearing individuals – is the end of the world (last day of time).  Many look to it in fear and dread, while others look to it in vengeance wanting vindication for all the things that they think are wrong with the world.  More

In today’s culture, there are many things vying for time, attention, and priority.  When I was a boy, I can remember extracurricular activities being mindful of people’s church life and not scheduling events on Sundays – and sometimes even on Wednesday nights.  However, today people think they have to participate in activities even if it