Biblical Perspectives and Commentary on Relevant Issues and Ethics in Church and Society
Don’t Let Fear Ruin Your Life In our world today fear has reached epidemic proportions. And the United States is no stranger to this horrible and sad state of our existence. It starts with politics. The far left wants us to fear the far right with tales of violent extremists ready to pounce on America, […]
When Life Gets You Down, Trust Our Faithful God Carol rushed into my office, her face red and angry, screaming a loud accusation at me before I even had time to utter a prayer. “You said my mother would get better, but she’s gotten worse! If she doesn’t have heart surgery she’s […]
Rejoicing in the Lord Will Brighten Your Day Evangelist Murphy (his name has been changed to protect the “guilty”) moved up and down the aisles of the supermarket, struggling to put one foot in front of the other as he searched for a few items he needed in his so far humiliating evangelistic […]
The Power of Christ Gives Us Confidence Our church was blessed with a small choir of people who loved to sing for the Lord. But our choir director resigned because she moved out of the area. So I hired a new attendee named George. I had just met him and didn’t know him at all, […]
God’s Help Is on the Way It had been raining lightly for twenty minutes as my wife and I were on our way to church for a mid-week ministry. The traffic light changed to red as we neared an intersection. But when I applied the brakes the car did not stop […]
You Are God’s Beloved Did you know that you are God’s beloved? Many Christians do not. Most Christians will talk about God’s love for them even though they sometimes have a difficult time believing he really loves them. Especially when trials and disappointments come their way. Still, most Christians will freely talk about the […]
The Blessings of Trusting God Almighty We live in dangerous and uncertain times. I’m not sure when the world was not like that, except in the period Jesus lived. There was relative peace then, known as the Pax Romana, the peace of the Roman empire, even in Israel. But world peace has always been […]
First of all, only celebrities, Christian or otherwise, get headlines. People lose faith in Christ and leave the Church all the time. The apostle Paul tells us about a man named Demas, who he listed as a fellow worker in Colossians 4:14 and Philemon 24. But later, in 2 Timothy 4:10, which […]
I believe in the God of miracles. This is the God of heaven and earth who asked Sarah long ago, “Is anything too hard for the Lord?” (Gen 18:14). Sarah had laughed when she heard God tell Abraham that his very old wife would have a baby in the spring. We would laugh too. Such […]
In my first blog (“Politicians: America’s Fetus Killers,” posted November 2015) I pointed out that the real killers of innocent babies in the womb are our politicians. From the Supreme Court (1973) on down they have sanctioned the killing of fetuses with no consideration for the life of an innocent baby nor caring how God, […]