I love object lessons. There’s something about them that helps me grasp spiritual lessons that otherwise elude me. However, I would like to share with you a lesson revolving around an ordinary, everyday object. Picture a piece of glass. Now, imagine that the glass represents the difficult circumstances in your ...
Read More »You Are Immortal, So Is Your Destiny, Part I
God is life. There is no way around it. When you get to know God—through the gentleness, love and compassion of Jesus, His Son—you revel in this truth. Why? Because with God there is no shifting shadow. (James 1:17) He is not a human that He should lie. (Numbers 23:19) ...
Read More »Fact or Feeling?
“If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice. For he breaketh me with a tempest, and multiplieth my wounds without cause. He will not suffer me to take my breath, but filleth me with bitterness.” – Job ...
Read More »I Had A “Baditude”–Do You Have One?
I had a baditude. And it was an extremely nasty one. But I found the remedy, and I took the medicine that cured it. I share this story with you because I have to ask, do you have one too? A baditude is pretty much what you may think it is ...
Read More »Matthew Henry: Faith and Hope In Suffering
Some readers may have heard of Rev. Matthew Henry, and in fact some may have used and read some of Mr. Henry’s biblical commentaries. Matthew Henry (d. 1714) is one of the most respected biblical scholars of the past three hundred years; his work is exhaustive–yet inspired and relevant. But ...
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