By Dr. Rick Flanders
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
(II Chronicles 7:14)
It isn’t uncommon today to hear Christians pray aloud for God [...]

By Dr. Rick Flanders
“Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge. For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them within thee; they shall withal be fitted in thy lips. That thy trust may be in the LORD, I have made known [...]

By Dr. Rick Flanders 
“And Levi made him a great feast in his own house: and there was a great company of publicans and of others that sat down with them. But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners? And Jesus answering said unto [...]

By Dr. Rick Flanders
“Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.”
(I John 4:11)
The First Epistle of John is one of the most helpful and challenging books a child of God could ever read and study. Many have built their lives upon promises they have found in its five chapters, [...]

By Dr. Rick Flanders
“As He spake these words, many believed on Him. Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on Him, If ye continue in My Word, then are ye my disciples indeed; and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”
(John 8:30-32)
His words were mysterious, and yet compelling [...]

By Dr. Rick Flanders

“Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name of the LORD our God.”
(Jeremiah 26:16)

Possibly the most disturbing prospect for me in regard to the new management of things in [...]

(These comments were written several days before Election Day, November 4, 2008)
No American can miss the fact that crises and calamities have converged on this country during this election year.  The presidential election campaign has been long and tumultuous and full of the unexpected.  The impression that the year of 2008 and the elections at [...]

by Dr. Rick Flanders
“Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize?  So run that ye may obtain.  And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.  Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.  I therefore so [...]

By Dr. Rick Flanders
“If a son shall ask bread of any of you that is a father, will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent? Or if he shall ask an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?  If ye then, being [...]

By Dr. Rick Flanders
“…if ye suffer for righteousness’ sake, happy are ye…” (I Peter 3:14)
It seems that the distinction was first made by attorney David Gibbs years ago in a speech he made many times in churches and fundamentalist conferences all over America.  He told the story of an Amish man named Yoder who defied [...]