As a young child living outside Richmond, Virginia, I grew up watching the great Mr. Rogers. Of all of the things that I remember about that show, I especially remember his opening theme song, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”
No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon. (Matt. 6:34)
An old joke moralizes that you should never ask a man if he is from Texas, for if he is, he will tell you so himself, and if he is not, there is no need to embarrass him.
Have you ever been in a situation where a button is right in front of you and you don’t know what it does? You want to push the button, but you are unsure of the consequences?
Well, in Acts chapters 6 and 7, we are introduced to a young man named Stephen…