The fact of Sara’s aging body and barren womb and Abraham’s age of 99 did not deter the Creator of All. Understanding the reasons for Abraham’s faltering faith, God came again to reassure his friend of His promise. Abram fell on his face, and God talked with him. (Ge 17:3) What Abraham needed was a... Continue Reading

Maybe you are protecting your image.  Maybe you fear what people would think if they knew what you are really like.  You are happy to talk about your successes but you never admit your failures.  You have never told anyone about those sins that so regularly get the better of you.  It leaves you feeling... Continue Reading

The Environmental Handbook was published and distributed to thousands of students across the US and Canada. It contained an essay written by Lynne White Jr., titled “The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis,” that had been published in Science magazine three years earlier. It pushed for the re-enchantment of culture, creating a new influential narrative... Continue Reading

When we pray God isn’t irritated by us. He’s not rolling his eyes at me when I ask the same thing over and over and over again. He doesn’t lose his patience through my stumbling words and imprecise petitions. He doesn’t give up because I can’t articulate what’s on my mind as well as I’d... Continue Reading

Christ will not only keep going with a work till it is perfected, but especially, He is still working when He is fitting His people to be stones in his building. It may even be by trials, but when He is cutting off “superfluities of naughtiness” (James 1:21) from His work and people, the things... Continue Reading

Jesus’s sacrifice only needed to happen once, but he will appear again. And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment, so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who... Continue Reading

Micah’s language is colorful: these rulers found the good to be repulsive and disgusting, while their wicked hearts delighted in upholding evil. Given the accusations of chapter 2, much of this probably had to do with collaborating and profiting with those who oppressed and despoiled the common people for the sake of gorging on riches... Continue Reading

“Don’t store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves don’t break in and steal” (Matthew 6:19-20).     When you look back to the recorded teachings of... Continue Reading