The greatest act of love is letting go. Even if it means drowning in darkness, if it is by guiding the child towards the light that you save them. This is illustrated continually through life’s great tragedies and sorrows. Why would a parent let go of a precious child, we ask. But there in Lk. 15 is the most telling example of this: a son bored with life and a father crying himself to sleep in concern for his prodigal son. Even there the story has a happy ending.
For those with tear-stained faces, broken hearts, and deep hurts....Psalm thirteen is not fast food for the soul. It is rich, profound truth intended to change us...
We Christians need not speculate about life on other planets or exactly how far this galaxy is from the next one. We need not ponder over the questions that baffle scientists who earnestly seek to recalibrate the facts of reality with their evolutionary mythology. We do not turn to religion to solve the mysteries of life and existence – we turn to Jesus. We look to Immanuel, “God with us.”
Are you a member of a church? Many modern American Christians minimize the importance of church membership. Salvation, church attendance, or other matters may be emphasized, but somehow church membership is not. Why? Let’s explore....
Psalm 92:12 tells us that “The righteous shall flourish like a palm tree.” But just what does that mean?
It is nothing less than character assassination and complete lack of love and truth; and it's unfortunately the one sin we seem to get the most enjoyment out of.
Most of us have one place we think of as home. Moses was the same. For him, though, the homeplace was not a house filled with memories. It was, instead, a Person. The Lord God Himself was the very dwelling place for Moses and the chosen people of Israel. How can that be so? Psalm 90:1 gives us two key truths to show us how.
The other day I saw a website called, "Lies of the Bible," an all-out attack on the truthfulness of the Word of God. Why? And what prompts the unabated attacks on Christians calling us hate-mongers, unloving, uncaring, and many other such evil things? Why do athiests hate us so much? The simple truth is, it’s not us, it’s God they hate. It's God they're really after.
Before he met Jesus on the road to Damascus, Saul of Tarsus underwent unusual preparation for his new life. God prepared Saul to exchange one apostleship for another....
