Think all is lost? Feel like you don’t know how to make a difference in our crazy world? Here’s a personal story that just might change your mind. –John Stonestreet, at http://www.breakpoint.org, May 25, 2016. —————————– In 9th grade, I was a knucklehead. Even worse, I was a Christian school knucklehead. Those […]
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Editorial by Mark Galli, editor of Christianity Today magazine, June 12, 2016, at: www.christianitytoday.com ——————————– We at Christianity Today are deeply grieved by the shooting in Orlando that killed 49 people. Our heartfelt sympathies go out to friends and family of the victims. In this case, the attack was targeted at one group,
(…continued) In John 6:5 the situation is not as desperate. The people are hungry, but they are not in the desert. They could walk back to their homes for dinner. But here too, a miracle is provided, and 5,000 people are fed with five small barley loaves and two fish. However, Jesus was
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I can recall only once that I have been without food. Like everyone else I have fasted in preparation for tests at the doctor. I have been ill and have not felt much like eating for a day or two. And I have cut back on food when I would have liked to
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By Richard Wurmbrand, 100 Prison Meditations, pages 65-66, 1982. The Bible is full of unanswered prayers. Paul wrote to the church in Rome that he was praying without ceasing to “have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you” (Romans 1:10, KJV). Instead of a prosperous
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Martin Luther (1483-1546) Time magazine cover, March 24, 1967 ————————————- “When God wills to punish a people or a kingdom, he takes away from it the good and godly teachers and preachers, and bereaves it of wise, godly, and honest rulers and counselors, and of brave, upright and experienced soldiers, and of other
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(…continued) A woman’s husband died suddenly. She said to her pastor some time later, “This has been terrible and my days are filled with loneliness and grief; but deep down, I know I am going to be all right.” Then she added, “I feel like I have been preparing for this moment for
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Above painting: The Importunate Neighbor, William Holman Hunt (1895) ———————— Luke 11:5-8: (Jesus) said to them, “Suppose one of you has a friend, and you go to him at midnight and say to him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread; for a friend of mine has arrived, and I have nothing to set before him.’ And
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(…continued) It would have been easy, of course, for God to explain this all to Job, but God chooses not to do that– not for Job, and not for us, either. There is nothing in the Bible to suggest that God is always making such deals with Satan and that is what leads
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Above: Job Rebuked by His Friends, watercolor by William Blake (1757-1827) (…continued) Job, however, has a very different view of the situation. While agreeing that it is indeed God’s business to punish evil and reward goodness, Job is quite convinced that God is making a big mistake in his case. Job certainly admits to not
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