It’s a sign of the times that I have to begin a post about an obvious truth – that men are to be providers and protectors – with a disclaimer: No, I am not saying that only men can be providers and protectors. Women can, and often do, fill that […]
Herb Reese
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Explicit and pervasive, that’s how I describe what the Bible says about widows and orphans.
“God has made us what we are, and in our union with Christ Jesus he has created us for a life of good deeds, which he has already prepared for us to do.” It’s hard for us to believe that the God of the universe concerns himself with the trivia […]
“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?” Psalm 11:3 Good question, isn’t it? If the foundations of law and order are destroyed, what can we, who like to think we are part of that group called “the righteous,” do? Well, one thing we can do is shore […]
Churches are responsible to act as overseers for the normal social systems that provide for their widows.
I never knew my grandfather. He died years before I was born. But I do know that Sivert Reese took his time getting married. Grandpa Reese was twenty-eight when he married Marit Risse, recently arrived from Opdal, Norway, on his farm near Irene, South Dakota. I’m not sure if it […]
I’ve spent the last sixteen years of my life obeying Isaiah 1:17: “Take up the cause of the fatherless, plead the cause of the widow.” I have done – and am doing – exactly what this passage tells us to do. Over the years, many of you have been following […]
“God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” Romans 2:24 Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve heard something I’ve never heard before on mainstream broadcast TV: the name “Jesus” used as a curse word…twice. For those of us who are Christians, this brazen willingness to express public […]
Churches have no plan for addressing long term needs “A sniper’s bullet shattered our windshield and instantly killed my husband as he drove our family along a remote highway in Africa. He and I were missionaries, having served in Africa many years,” the woman’s voice on the other end of […]
If you ask people what the book of Genesis is about, most would say it’s about creation. After all, the book’s name, “Genesis,” means “beginning.” But Genesis is not about creation, the current ongoing creation debate notwithstanding. The creation narrative in Genesis occupies only the first two out of a […]