George Barna said, "Americans revere the Bible, but by and large they don’t know what it says. And because they don’t know it, they have become a nation of biblical illiterates."
Learn from the eagle: don't fight crows.
More and more people insist that common sense will set things right. Here’s how it works: The first person comments that the world has gone haywire concerning some issue. (It can be any hot topic–gender issues, border security, climate change, and on and on.) The second person responds that common sense will fix the problem. Nods and thumbs up follow, and the two people are satisfied that common sense is strong enough for the job. Is it?
Sometimes one word, or a more clearly expressed thought, can make the difference between night and day, for time and eternity.
Never miss an opportunity to learn what God has to teach you in His wonderful world of nature.
The Christian life is a lot like those rose bushes. In order for a rose bush to produce more flowers you have to remove all the dead roses from the bush. In much the same way, God gets a Christian to produce more Christlikeness when the dead weights and sins are pruned from a believer's life.
In January of this year I suffered a stroke which left me partly incapacitated. I’ve not been able to fully use my left leg or foot since then and am actively involved in exercise and rehabilitation. The Lord has been gracious and has helped me each day to “re-learn” the use of this leg. Thanks to the assistance of my wonderful wife and kind friends, I am well on the way to recovery. But we don’t know what it means to be without body parts until we are interrupted in the usage of them. The smallest tasks, especially of mobility, suddenly become daunting.
The first eleven chapters of Genesis tell big news: God creates everything, sees humankind fallinto sin, judges humanity by a global flood, spares only Noah and his family, and watchespeople try to build a tower to heaven their own way. But bigger news in Genesis will follow.
Grief has become once again a part of our family’s heart condition. The fact that I have a master’s degree in counseling and have done some counseling with those going through the grieving process does not ease the feelings of loss I feel. Over the last few days, I have returned to my books and studies on the issues of grief.
