Do you desire the GIFTS or the GIVER? What circumstances in life could destroy your faith? Loss of wealth? Death of loved ones? Poor health? Being persecuted?
The book of Job is about faith. It is the story of a man chosen to experience a devastating trial of his faith. The author of Job gives us a glimpse behind the scenes. We, as readers, are entrusted with information hidden from the actors. They must play their roles in this story without insight that could radically…
The truth is sometimes difficult to accept. Faith can be hard. Many reject a teaching because they do not think what is being said is believable. While Christians would argue that the truth is indeed believable, we also must realize that there is something about the nature of it that, at first, may appear to be more difficult to receive. After all, we are…
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The first thing that comes to mind when you think about Jesus and His enemies is, why would He have any enemies? All He did was go about doing good by healing the sick, making the blind to see, raising the dead to life, casting out demons, feeding the hungry, and restoring the strength of the crippled to walk again. He also spoke of a place He was preparing that was forever free from pain, sorrow, death, hunger, evil, disease, decay, thirst, darkness, and fear. Why would anybody say, “well that’s not for me?” How could anybody in their…
Three turtles were swimming across a pond, one moving more slowly than the others even though he worked harder to keep up. On his back was a large collection of moss and algae, extra baggage built up over time, but the turtle was unaware. Perhaps the struggling swimmer thought that he was just slower than the rest, not as good, didn’t measure up. More likely, he just didn’t think about his struggle at all, accepted his difficulty with quiet resignation, never to be good enough, always slower than his brothers.
The road of…
According to God’s Will
When we make plans apart from seeking God’s will, we are guilty of arrogance. Such boasting is called evil (Jas 4:13-17). That may not seem like evil to us, but it is. Why? Because that is the attitude at the foundation of all evil.
We usually think of evil in terms of various moral transgressions, but the…
