by Dan Hayden • The Christmas season began in full swing when Black Friday opened its doors to the holiday buying frenzy. Christians sometimes complain about how the world merchandizes the celebration of Christ’s birth, but in spite of all the secular trappings...
Dr. Dan Hayden • Vance Havner, the renowned Southern Baptist evangelist, once said, “I’ve quit saying ‘the world is going to the dogs’ out of respect for dogs.” That was over a half-century ago—and it seems that we have slid down the slippery slope of debauchery much...
Dr. Dan Hayden • Echoing across the wooded valley, the excited howls of coon dogs announced the presence of a raccoon hiding in a tree. Flashlights pierced the darkness as our hunting party made its way to the scene. A city boy knows nothing about coon hunting, so my...
Dr. Dan Hayden • “I don’t care—whatever! Do what you want.” As a term of disdain, whatever is a popular response. We tend to use it when frustrated in the tension of an argument—“Whatever!” It basically says “I’m done. The argument is over.” The current climate of...
Throughout its existence, A Word from the Word has clearly been a personality-driven ministry—that is, 35 years of Dan Hayden’s Bible teaching, shared nationally and internationally through this nonprofit ministry, originally called Christolized Ministries. An...
Dr. Dan Hayden • What is the prophetic significance of Britain leaving the European Union? That question is on the mind of every student of biblical prophecy. Brexit, or Britain’s exit from the EU, certainly qualifies as a major event in the course of nations. Only...
Dr. Dan Hayden • When you’re 20 years old and plagued with more self-confidence than wisdom, you do stupid things. I was a college sophomore with friends to impress, so I needed wheels. An upper classman had just put his ’46 Harley up for sale and I just knew I had to...
Dr. Dan Hayden • So, when are you really a loser . . . when somebody says you are? When you, yourself, think you are? Or, when you actually lose? I am writing this the day after the Iowa caucuses (February 2, 2016), and Donald Trump lost to Ted Cruz. In fact,...
Dr. Dan Hayden • Mary was exhausted. The seventy mile trip from Nazareth to Bethlehem tended to be a long, arduous journey–especially for a woman nearing the final days of being “with child.” Jostling on a donkey or in a cart made by her husband for...
Dr. Dan Hayden • We make decisions every day about what we will do, and what we will not do. And therein lies the dilemma of the human experience: Our lives revolve around alternative choices–forks in the road—and consequently those choices determine our destiny. Some...
