A Tale of Two Cities “The whole Bible,” the Scottish preacher Eric Alexander says, “is in a very real sense a tale of two cities.” Babylon first appeared in Genesis ...
LAST MOTHER'S DAY WEEKEND I BEGAN WATCHING FOR A CARD FOR MOTHER'S DAY ON THURSDAY... NOPE. FRIDAY. NOPE. MAYBE ONE OF MY FIVE (FIVE) CHILDREN WOULD REMEMBER. SATURDAY. NOPE. ...
When sorrow comes pouring into your life, and it will, you may not know the reason why, but you can be sure the reason is not that God doesn't love ...
"WHO SINNED? THIS MAN OR HIS PARENTS, THAT HE WAS BORN BLIND?" (John 9:2) RELIGION, IN CONTRAST TO THE GOSPEL, ASSUMES SUFFERING IS DUE TO SIN BUT JESUS IS CLEAR ...
SOMETIMES OUR MERCIFUL LORD IS SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND GOD HAD CALLED JOHN THE BAPTIST FOR A GRAND PURPOSE.. WHEN HE WAS STILL IN HIS MOTHER'S WOMB HE LEAPED FOR ...
THERE IS AN OLDER BROTHER SOLUTION TO SUFFERING: DISPLAYED IN JOB'S "MISERABLE" COMFORTERS THERE IS A YOUNGER BROTHER SOLUTION TO SUFFERING: DISPLAYED IN JOB'S WIFE THERE IS A GOSPEL SOLUTION: ...
WHATEVER THE STORM HE IS LORD OF THE STORM IF HE SENDS IT TO HIS CHILD, HIS PURPOSE IS ALWAYS GRACE IF HE ALLOWS IT FOR HIS MYSTERIOUS PURPOSES, HE ...
I promised to keep this fresh, especially for those of you who have been through The God of All Comfort before, so this is new material. Even in the storms ...
The Lord sets His face against the proud, but He is for the humble, the outcast, the afflicted. I've seen it again and again. This is my just born granddaughter, ...
It's a mistake believers often make. We want to be rescued from our circumstances instead of sin in our lives. I made it. We kept thinking that God's rescue would ...
Do you remember Rabbi Kushner's bestselling "When Bad Things Happen To Good People?" His thesis was that we must forgive God for losing control. How different from the dialogue at ...