According to the Bible, your life is an integrated whole which includes body, mind, and spirit. God is your Life-Giver. In theological language we are described as tricotymous. Remove any aspect of our being and we would be a different being but non-human. Remove the...
Who is your nearby friend? I hope you have a few or many. And I hope they know your loyalty, appreciation and, yes, even your dependence upon them. The Ancient Proverbs identifies the nearby friend as one who is long-standing, perhaps...
Is your trust solely in Christ? Have you accepted His forgiveness for the guilty sentence which you bear? Yes, dear friend we are all guilty of missing the mark, God’s high standard of holiness. The penalty for missing that mark is eternal...
My eyes caught two interesting phrases in that small little narrative work named “Ruth”. Her story and those phrases brought a bright light of hope into the dismal gray caste during the ancient Judges. You see, much like today, “everyone...
“The prospect of divine judgment is certainly mortifying, but…we must appreciate the broader significance of our ultimate accountability to God”. Evangelical Convictions, p.223 Aspects of divine judgment are indeed good,..yes, absolutely good. A. God’s judgment...
I’ve heard it said way too often. Each time it comes up, the conversation becomes somewhat predictable. The topic is ‘work and ministry’. What becomes predictable are the assertions and applause when a willing soul announces leaving their marketplace...
It all hinges on the resurrection In our humanity, we consider it inconceivable that a dead man might return to life. It is incomprehensible and inconceivable indeed. Yet it happened. The foundation for the entire New Testament is...
So the inquiry went something like this. “Tell me about your spiritual journey. How did it develop? How did you get to where you are today?” I am eager for such inquiry for many reasons. First, to gain the common ground of most modern conceptions of...
The movie is a powerful and accurate retelling of what God did in the 1970’s in revealing Himself among the marginalized hippie population in Southern California.
We are quite overdue, agree?! Just watch the news or reflect on what’s missing. It almost goes without saying that a revival is needed. Any revival of sorts but I’ve learned that any revival must start with me.