Dr. Dan Hayden • Do you know the difference between a temptation and a trial? Both can be times of real testing but one comes from God, and one doesn’t. James 1:2 says “Consider it all joy my brethren, when you encounter various trials…” Let’s look at that word...
Dr. Dan Hayden • When a person is particularly evil, we will sometimes say, “He’s nothing but trouble.” Well, that’s our word for today – trouble. Christ’s death on the cross was ultimately the thwarting of evil, but as He hung in pain, dying for the sins of the...
Dr. Dan Hayden • Are you concerned to know the truth? To cut through all of the deceptions and media spins that accompany all that we are told these days? I know I am. I want to know the truth. Pilate was a typical politician, wheeling and dealing his way through...
Dr. Dan Hayden • Knowing what to do can give a person the edge. Not knowing what to do can get you fired. Recently Ford Motor Company has dropped to the bottom of the car market because of recent problems with recalls, including their popular small SUV (the Escape),...
Dr. Dan Hayden • In order for Jesus Christ to be “God with us” (Immanuel), He had to be virgin born. The union of a divine nature and a human nature in one Person could not have been accomplished by natural conception. The prophecy in Isaiah 7:14 anticipates this,...
Dr. Dan Hayden • I know how to pray—I’ve been doing it for years. What I sometimes don’t know, however, is what to pray. “What” is my problem—not “how.” It was early August, and I was ministering at a camp in northern Wisconsin. The first day a man came to me and...
Dr. Dan Hayden • Have you ever worked hard at something that you really enjoyed doing? It was hard work, but you did it with gladness because it was really what you wanted to do. Psalm 100 is a psalm of thanksgiving. It begins by telling us to “shout joyfully to the...
Dr. Dan Hayden • Have you ever played Scrabble? Each player gets an assortment of letters, and the object is to make words on a board. Now the idea is, you can’t just put out any old letters. It has to be a word – that’s the point. It’s a word game. Words are how we...
They weren’t kings – but they were smart. Therefore, it’s better to say “The three wise men” than to call them “the kings of the east.” One of the great traditions of Christmas is the celebration of the three wise men who came to worship Jesus. Matthew 2:1 says, “Now...
Dr. Dan Hayden • In Romans 1:22, the Bible says, “Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.” Now isn’t that something! They thought that they were so wise – yet they were really being foolish. Sounds like a lot of kids I know! Wisdom is not how smart you...
