Be My Valentine?
(Copyright 1997) by Mike Ford (Oxford, Georgia) Cupid, draw back your bowAnd let your arrow goStraight to my lover’s heartFor me. . .. Sam Cooke sang those words back in 1961, and “oldies” radio stations still play the song on occasion. Oddly enough, Sam Cooke was killed at the relatively young age of 29, gunned down […]
Wool and Linen
(Copyright 2015) by Mike Ford (Oxford, Georgia) “You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, such as wool and linen mixed together.” —Deuteronomy 22:11 What is the strangest law in the Bible? For many, it is Deuteronomy 22:11, “You shall not wear a garment of different sorts, such as wool and linen mixed together.” This directive […]
Is New Year’s Eve a Pagan Holiday?
(Copyright) by Mike Ford (Oxford, Georgia) “Learn not the way of the heathen” (Jeremiah 10:2, KJV) We know we are in the Christmas season—that time of year true Christians dread—when we find ourselves humming along with the piped-in music at the store and suddenly realize it is a Christmas tune. The church has published many messages over the […]
Like a Tree
by Mike Ford (Oxford, Georgia) “He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper.” (Psalm 1:3) The Eighth Day, often called the Last Great Day, immediately following the Feast of Tabernacles, represents the Great […]