He understands and sympathizes with human sufferings The human heart craves sympathetic understanding—someone who can perceive its deepest sorrows and urgent needs. Characterized as this life is by rigorous trials and pervasive pain, “a shoulder to cry on” is required gear for journeying in this fallen world. Christians are not exempt from this natural desire […]
Educational television is rarely without an agenda. In May 25th of this year, The History Channel broadcast a primetime program entitled The Link. Advertisements for the premier stated, “Missing link found! An incredible 95 percent complete fossil of a 47-million-year-old human ancestor has been discovered and, after two years of secret study, an international team […]
Excerpts from “In the School of Christ” by David Gooding By now the little party of eleven apostles, clustered closely round the Lord Jesus to catch His every word, must have been getting near the Garden of Gethsemane. Soon all instruction must cease for the time being. Many things that the Lord had to say […]
Inside out It is quite common for an unbeliever to believe that mankind, although not perfect, is fundamentally good. Even many believers hold to a watered-down form of this belief where they technically admit that every one of us is a sinner, but practically think that we aren’t that bad. You know, maybe we were […]
A growing problem Most Christians take a strong stand against certain sins. There is a holy rejection of sexual immorality. The pro-life movement is strong with its plea for the life of the unborn. Alcoholism and drug abuse are rightly condemned. Pornography is abhorred. But there is a common sin which has become acceptable among […]
“Clean the inside … that its outside may become clean also.” In a modern world so full of the artificial, and so transformed by the synthetic, we have almost lost an appreciation for the authentic. Society has traded foundational life principles and absolutes for compromise and situational ethics. The moral purity of a past generation […]
Does my heart work like His? Most of us will recognize the title topic as a description of David, as recorded in 1 Samuel 13:14. Paul also makes reference to it in Acts 13:22, and this is perhaps even more instructive to us as we endeavor to understand the heart we are to have as […]
Brokenness: The pathway to blessing Normally, when something breaks it loses value. For example, a collision decreases the worth of an automobile, and a shattered keepsake is remorsefully discarded as a total loss. Within the physical realm, the laws of nature work to depreciate the value of our possessions, but this is not so in […]
Eager or reluctant? The Law that God gave to His Old Testament people, Israel, contained a great many commandments pertaining to the moral and spiritual lives of each individual. But it is not without significance that, proportionally, far and away the largest two topics covered by the Law are the offerings (picturing the person and […]