“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 […]
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“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Over the past couple of years I have done some promotional work on Facebook. Lately I’ve focused on promoting a few posts I’ve written for my blog. One post in particular has received an overwhelming response. Here it is: “It’s Time for America’s Churches to Take Their Financial Responsibilities to […]
Christians, I have a habit of saying, have two things to give to this world: the gospel and the love of Christ. The primary focus of New Commandment Men’s Ministries is on the latter. We train men to apply the love of Christ to their widowed and single parents in […]
My recent post, “It’s Time for America’s Churches to Take Their Financial Responsibilities to Widows and Others Seriously,” has received overwhelming support. It’s been downloaded from my site over 20,000 times and shared by over 4,000 people. Now I want to extend the thought in that post. What would it […]
I don’t know if this is true or not, but the story goes that a psychology class decided to do a little “experiment” on their professor. They all agreed that everytime the professor – who liked to stand while he taught his class – moved to their right, they would […]
We read in Acts 2 that after the church sacrificially cared for the needy in its midst it “enjoyed the favor of all the people.” That popular response to the church’s observable love for each other mirrored Jesus’ prayer in John 17: “That they may be brought to complete unity. […]