Category: Life Issues
Have You Ever Noticed that “Love It” Rhymes with Covet?
How much time do you spend “window shopping”?—trying on clothes or shoes, browsing through catalogs or on the internet, admiring the latest car models, or loitering in the tool section of Sears or the hunting and fishing section of Wal-Mart? Now please don’t get mad or...
Giant Despair
“Great thoughts of your sin alone will lead you to despair,” said the beloved 19th Century London pastor, Charles Spurgeon. He ought to know. He had excruciating bouts with depression. “I know the borders of despair and the horrible brink of that gulf of darkness into...
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...
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...
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...
Encouragement from Job the Sufferer
Like twin tsunamis, affliction overtook Job in two crushing waves. First his immense wealth and his ten children were swept away. Then his body was tormented by “loathsome sores from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head” (2:7).Job’s story spans forty-two chapters...
Eight Hundred Thirty-Three Dollars and Thirty-Three Cents
This figure, $833.33, represents an early encouragement from God . . . “early,” as in “early in our marriage.” It certainly WAS an encouragement that helped us think about God’s ability and desire to provide everything we need for our ministry and for our lives. Just...
Drinking From the Bitter Waters
By many miracles, God delivered Israel out of Egypt and across the Red Sea. Immediately thereafter, they were three days in the wilderness without water. When they did find at Marah the water they had desperately sought, it was bitter (Exodus 15:22-25). How would they respond...
Estate Planning, by the Master
Here’s an important message from a businessman. He knows money, but he knows God better. His words need to be taken to heart. Read them carefully. -Editor For some time now, I have been dealing with the issue of protecting my children’s and their children’s inheritance....
