Category: CHRISTIAN LIFE
Give Me Justice
Jesus ends with this: “I tell you that He will bring about justice for them quickly. However, when the Son of Man comes, will He find faith on the earth?” All of this has to do with appeals for justice. We see this kind of appeal...
Giving In: Just Haggling Over the Price
In his probing book called The Grand Weaver, well-known apologist and author Ravi Zacharias records a story he once read. Let me give it to you in his own words: The writer described a man aboard a plane who propositioned a woman sitting next to him...
God is With Us: His Best Promise
On the way to the Promised Land, he wasn’t the only one who was angry. God was ready to wipe out the entire lot of them and start again. One of Moses’ most significant acts was to intercede for the foolish tribes of Israel so that...
Frazzled Yet Faithful
One way believers demonstrate their faithfulness to God is by remaining consistent in personal spiritual disciplines like prayer and Bible study. These practices not only edify the believer, they also say to God, “I enjoy You and I want to spend time with You.” I am...
Four Hopes For Hard Times
How should we confront the difficult times life invariably brings? One way is to learn from those who have succeeded in similar straits. Joseph the patriarch faced incredible trials, and his life holds many lessons to give us hope. Let’s look at four. DELIVERANCE IS COMING...
Foes Without; Fears Within
Civil War broke out. (Have you known war, real human disruption and conflict, even if on a small scale?) It is fair to call it “breaking out,” as if it were a plague that was destined to take the lives of many cherished family members and...
Finishing Well
“Cease listening, my son, to discipline, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.” (Proverbs 19:27) No man, save Christ, is perfect. But what makes men and women great is a teachable spirit over a lifetime. A man who decides he knows it all or...
Finding Help In Troubled Waters
This has been a particularly difficult week, and I confess to have fallen prey to anxiety and fretting. Worry can give small problems such long shadows that they become giants of immense, irresistible proportions. On the other hand, I fully realize that there is no enemy...
Finding Help at the Throne of Grace
Do you have a significant need that has not been met, or an urgent prayer that hasn’t been answered? If so, I’m right there with you—and I bring good news. God has made provision for such times: “Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the...
Faith-Sized Requests
Few things are as fixed as mountains. But, on the day after Jesus cursed the fig tree, He declared that they can be moved. “Have faith in God. Truly I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be taken up and cast into the sea,’...
