Posted: November 21, 2024
After Job lost his children and his house and his livestock and many of his servants and finally his health, “Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.”1 Wait. What? I thought Job was a man who held “fast his integrity.” A man who was “blameless and upright, one who feared God
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Posted: November 14, 2024
On a mountainside in Galilee, Jesus preached a message known as the Sermon on the Mount. We read, “Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them.”1 About two thirds of the way through the sermon, he
Continue Reading “What More Are You Doing?”
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Posted: November 7, 2024
According to the Pew Research Center, “About nine-in-ten U.S. adults believe in God or another higher power, including 54% who say they believe in “God as described in the Bible” and 34% who say they don’t believe in the biblical depiction of God but do believe there is “some other higher power or spiritual force
Continue Reading “Truly, truly.”
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Posted: October 31, 2024
The Israelites knew God. They had seen him. They were witnesses to his signs and miracles. They promised Moses that they would do whatever God wanted them to do. But when they sat on the edge of the Promised Land and Caleb told them that they would have to fight to get in, they said
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Posted: October 24, 2024
In a yoga class, participants are encouraged to empty their minds and become “void minded.”* We often think of the word “peace” as a state of mind. My friend Merriam-Webster defines it as a state of tranquility or quiet. But that’s not how the peace of God works. Paul writes in Philippians: “And the peace
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Posted: October 17, 2024
The day Job lost his 7,000 sheep and 3,000 camels and 500 oxen and 500 donkeys and all but three of his servants and all seven of his children, he “tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. And he said, ‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and
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Posted: October 10, 2024
According to the Pew Research Center, only one in ten Americans say they don’t believe in God or a higher power of any kind. That means that 90% of Americans believe in some sort of God. So, my question for all these believers is what exactly do they believe about God? Perhaps they believe in
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Posted: October 3, 2024
Though we should try to protect ourselves from storms, nothing prevents them from coming, does it? They reach us regardless of whether we prepared for them or not. Jesus talked about the storms in one of his sermons. He said, “Everyone then who listens to these words and does them will be like a wise
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Posted: September 26, 2024
Here is a most popular verse that we love to quote: “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.”1 So, the question for us is do we know that? Do we believe that all the things in our lives
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Posted: September 19, 2024
“There was a man who had two sons.”1 We know about the younger son—the one who received his inheritance early and left home to spend it all. Let’s call him Simon. The older one—let’s call him Jonah—he knew better. He was willing to wait for his inheritance. Jonah lived at home and worked dutifully for
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