If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. – Deuteronomy (more…)
So What Do We Do Now?
My fellow Christ-followers, let’s have a family chat.
Our nation has been so caught up in double whammy from the Supreme Court that the news of terror attacks on three continents has gone almost without mention. Perhaps we can only absorb so much bad news at a time. Maybe we’ve even exceeded our saturation point.
So if I’m to address what Christians are (more…)
Lessons from the Charleston Tragedy
In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted, while evildoers and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived. – 2 Timothy 3:12-14
Dylann Roof is an evil young man who committed acts of great evil. Most of us cannot begin to comprehend what could lead someone to commit such terrible (more…)
My Father’s Love
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are.—1 John 3:1
I did not grow up with my father. In fact, I didn’t see him from the time I was 2 until I was 23. It was an awkward reunion.
We met on neutral ground in my original stomping (more…)
Coming Down from the Mountaintop
When Moses came down from Mount Sinai, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand as he came down from the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face shone because he had been talking with God.—Exodus 34:29
Most of us have spiritual mountaintop experiences. Last week was one of mine. Our team of 18—representing children to (more…)