Every Time I See It
Every morning, going to work, I pass a very large cemetery in Atlanta. There on the sloping hill sit hundreds of tombstones, all giving honor to the person who was laid to rest there. I think about all of these people. Who were they, what were their lives like? I know that some were celebrities,…
Self-Control
In the bible, self-control is always presented and praised as righteous and a desired trait. Its absence is listed among the unrighteous traits of men in the “last days” (2 Tim. 3:1,3). In 2 Peter 1:6, Peter admonishes us to add self-control to knowledge. The Greek word is egkrateia1 which comes from egkrates, and it…