Articles by Bob Chilton

“Sticks and Stones may break my bones…but words can never hurt me!”   Remember learning that? How’s it workin’ out for you?  This was the tool I was told to use when people called me names, made fun of me, or insulted me.  It certainly has never worked for me.  It never fixed anything nor did it make me feel any better.  Nothing can...

Seems like I spend an awful lot of time driving. I’m picking up kids, going to the store, running errands…how about you? Most of the time my mind is running in different directions and everything is on autopilot, and my random thoughts flash in and out of my head (most I can’t remember and count as “senior moments”). But, the other day a stop sign caught my eye. STOP...

As I write this note, the TV in my office is presenting a program on “Electric Fish”, in particular, electric eels. As I watch and listen I cannot ignore the evidence of our God’s majesty. How can anyone see creatures like these, and deny a supreme and tremendous creator? Even the word “creature” come from the same root as “create”. They are not “evo...

Consider the lowly battery. They produce work by causing electrons to flow from itself through a conductor into something else. You can’t see the electrons as they move, but you can verify the movement by whatever is connected to the battery. If , when it performs its function, then we know the battery is charged and empowering whatever it is connected to. Today’s lineup of batteries i...

Did the title get your attention? What are you expecting this article to say? Do you think I’m going to talk about 900 phone numbers, or maybe pornography, or the difference in the male and female species? Nope. “Sex Sells” is the cry from retailers and the media. Perhaps I want to sell you a car, or a pair of blue jeans. How about a bag of potato chips? Surely that was what God ...

I contemplated a long time on my New Year’s resolution for this year. Guess what it is? This New Year I resolved not to make a New Year’s resolution! I’m tired of breaking them… and then I realized by not making one, I made one and therefore, I already broke it. Kinda like sin, huh? Paul wrote something about it in Rom 7:15-16… “I do not understand my own acti...

Along with many other scriptures, I love the message of Jesus in Matthew 11:28 –30… “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light." I love that passage more and more each year because I...

I found out the secret of losing weight fast! Before I tell you my secret though, I have to tell you how I discovered it. Linda and I had just returned from visiting her relatives, but while I was there, everyone kept commenting on the weight I had lost since they had last seen me. I basked in the “loser’s glow” limelight for a while; actually beginning to believe I looked &ldquo...

Here’s a story to think about from an unknown author. One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people. He said, “My son, the battle is between two “wolves” inside us all. One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The o...

  One of the hardest things for me to do is to let God take care of my life.  When things are going good, I thank Him sincerely.  When things are going bad, I beg Him to fix it…sincerely.  When things are just running along smoothly I sometimes forget to say anything.  Upon reflection, it seems I get sincere in seeking His guidance during “feast” or &ldq...

(I’m not sure how I came on this story, but if you gave it to me, thank you.) A woman looked out her kitchen window and observed her new neighbor hanging out her wash while her husband consumed his breakfast. She began to complain about how this “new neighbor lady”, whom she hadn’t even yet met, needed to do something about the ‘dingy’ clothes she was putting ou...

1.    Have you ever gone away, for example, on a vacation, and when you returned no one in your church family noticed you had been gone? 2.    Do you feel like no one ever tries to find out about you or your family? 3.    Ever feel like you have the “family name”, but aren’t a real part of the family? 4.    Would you say...

Crosby, Stills and Nash recorded this song in the 1970’s. It was a truly different lyric for its time. This was the time of “free love” and “if it feels good, do it” philosophies, not an unwelcome “look at yourself” and “what your life is teaching” concept. But there it was, a sermon in song title. The concept is certainly Biblical. 1. Jesus ta...

Many years ago, although to me it doesn’t seem so long, I worked as a program director and disc jockey at a radio station in Missouri. There was always a radio on, as our “on air broadcast went throughout the radio station. Every room, (even the restrooms) had a speaker to hear what was going out to the public. Most of the time no one ever really listened - unless there was a mistake. ...

If, for the sake of discussion, Christianity were a political candidate, what would be its platform? Would it champion human life as being sacred, precious, and in the image of God? Or would it let each individual decide if human life was of any value or pertainence? If Christianity were a political candidate would it be more concerned about the varying economy or the growing ungodliness of our so...

A short time ago my mother and I made a trip to Texas to say goodbye to my uncle Ralph. He had followed his father’s example, and his Heavenly Father’s command, by trying to serve the Lord all his life as a minister of the Gospel. After an operation to relieve bleeding on his brain, he was losing the battle to blood clots throughout his body and was in his last days. Even though he cou...

My sister, Vickie sent this to me and asked me to share this beautiful woman’s message with her special Oklahoma ladies and give them her love… so I will. (Ditto from me also) It is a wonderful poem written by Audrey Hepburn when she was asked to share her ‘beauty tips’. It was read at her funeral, years later. I think it falls in line with scripture, (I stuck in some exam...

“I am flat worn out! It’s all I can do, trying to make a living, and my wife wants this and that, my children have to go here or there, they need this and that; they have sports and school activities that take up my time. The only “free time” I have seems to be spent on nursing my aches and pains. Just watching my grandchildren makes me tired; they are so full of energy. I&...

Being privileged to go visiting a few Sundays ago, I attended church in Springfield with our brothers and sisters there. I sat behind a young mother with 3 very active sons. They appeared to be in an age range from 3 to 6 years. She struggled valiantly to keep them quiet and occupied during the service. You could tell she was doing her best to keep her ‘brood’ from disturbing or distra...

We are all familiar with cold weather and the demands it puts upon us in so many ways. But, if you had lived in the mid-eighteenth century, the only way to heat your home was with a fireplace. They were not very efficient. Most of the heat escaped up the chimney or through the walls, because in most homes the only place for a fireplace was an outside wall. But a great American recognized this prob...