RELIGION — Last week we touched on prideful distortion and how it affected people like Pharaoh, Nebuchadnezzar and Herod. But the truth is, most who are reading this don’t suffer from pride anywhere near that degree. Our problem isn’t that we’re head over heels in...

By BRUCE GREEN RELIGION — You don’t have to read much of Proverbs before you understand the writer likes to use contrast to make his point. He tells us in 1:7 that “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.” He does...

By BRUCE GREENTeaching Minister at 10th Street Church of Christin Opelika RELIGION –– The book of Proverbs is full of powerful passages about our speech. A good place to begin is in 18:21 where the writer tells us, “The tongue has the power of life and death.” Framing...

By BRUCE GREENTeaching Minister at 10th Street Church of Christin Opelika RELIGION –– I remember a man, a World War II veteran, who liked to say that free speech wasn’t free — it came at the cost of the lives of the people who fought to preserve it. It was a needed...