Category: CHRISTIAN LIFE
The Garage Method
A former professor of mine, now a successful author of Christian fiction, used to dismiss his anxieties by repeating this mantra: “Oh well. It doesn’t eternally matter.” For him six words conquered all ills. He slew his worries with a phrase, with a mere wag of...
The Fruit to End All Fruits
A man without it is like a pillaged city (Prov. 28:25). Satan seeks its absence as an opening to tempt (1Cor. 7:5). Successful athletes view it as a key to victory (1 Cor. 9:25). Elders (pastors) must be known for it (1 Tim. 3:2). Older believers...
The Evil of Ungratefulness
Every year in late November, Americans are reminded to be thankful. Though some National Football League broadcasters have done their best to rename the day after the traditional main course of the meal (i.e., “Turkey Day”), thoughtful Americans persist in calling the day what it was...
Sweetness of Speech: The Bible’s Winning Tactic for Verbal Disputes
We all have the unfortunate ability to be fully convinced of our own rightness and yet still be wrong. This reality should make humility our governing disposition when disagreeing with others. And yet, having a humble disposition doesn’t mean never taking a strong stand, never contending...
Surviving Unbridled Wickedness
Not a single godly person could be found. At least, that’s how the psalmist felt. Save, O Lord, for the godly one is gone; for the faithful have vanished from among the children of man. (Ps 12:1) He used exaggerated language to make a point: rampant,...
The Book Alive
The husband had fallen asleep as the wife finished reading her Bible in bed. Suddenly she threw her hand on to the chest of the sleeping spouse screaming out, “There’s a man in this book!” There is, indeed! In one sense, the Bible is simply a...
The Bitterness Game
“Never pay back evil for evil to anyone,” God warns. Never? Like a man who has to move a water buffalo off the highway, “It ain’t all that easy.” After all, you’ve been deeply hurt, and the pain has been going on a long time. How...
The Antidote to Boredom
Solomon Grundy Born on Monday Christened on Tuesday Married on Wednesday Taken ill on Thursday Worse on Friday Died on Saturday Buried on Sunday And that was the end of Solomon Grundy. Is your life predictable? boring? “same ol’ same ol‘?” Please excuse me for being...
The Abiding Life
The abiding life is the true Christian life. Jesus said, “If anyone does not abide in Me, he is thrown away as a branch, and dries up; and they gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.” (John 15:6) John 15 gives...
Testing
After these things, God tested Abraham. (Genesis 22:1)God is ruthlessly interested in your faith. He will use everything at His disposal to develop you into a person who trusts Him. He knows that your life, the life and salvation of those around you, and His glory...
