My soul clings to you,Your right hand upholds me.
Preaching the Gospel through God’s love for us
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s…
Futile suffering in this world
This article is part of a series that begins here. An outline can be found here. The Problem of Futile Suffering I listened as an atheist admitted that the most difficult quandary…
May God enable others to see my weakness
This may sound strange. But hope others see me as weak. Not in a pitiful sense, but in the sense that what ever strength is seen in me is credited…
Trying to get a square peg into a round hole
This article is part of a series that begins here. An outline can be found here. “And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ…
The Gospel is for the believer – Part 1
The Gospel is for the sinner 1 John 1:8“If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.” I was talking with someone…
Blessing in loving the poor
Questions:Have you found ministering to the poor in your life a hard thing and a burden or has it been a joy and a delight and made you feel free?…
Teaching life not “rules”
If you teach them “rules”, then they have something to rebel against. If you teach them life and truth, then they have something to love. There is wonder and awe…
Hard soil
“As for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it. He indeed bears fruit and yields, in one case a hundred…
Your goal ought to be to lose an argument
One’s goal in every disagreement ought to be to lose. Losing is better than winning an argument. When you win you don’t grow. When you lose you grow and gain…
Beautiful
In Proverbs 31, King Lemuel sets down to write as he recalls “the utterance which his mother taught him”. These are the words that a mother installed into her son…
