Sometimes things really do get worse before they get better. My recent Bible study on the phrase “it is better” was quite educational—in fact, I uncovered the idea that many of the feelbadthings in life are actually “better” for us. So, the question becomes how can things that we ...
9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook ungodlike (ʌnˈɡɒdˌlaɪk) adj not godlike Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009...
the plant beaten by the breezes, he remembered the quoit, and trembled for fear the wind, so jealous once about the boy, might hate him even in a leaf: if it is true that Apollon once wept with those eyes that never wept, to see that boy writhing in the dust, and the pattern ...
In the Whirlwind: God and Humanity in Conflict by Robert A. Burt (review) Burt's study of the interaction of divinity and humanity in establishing authority, divine and human alike, in the Bible is a closer literary reading of the entire Bible than most on offer from either divinity schools...
Isaiah 13: 12 I will make a mortal more rare than fine gold; and a man (Adamite) than the gold of Ophir. Isaiah 66: 15 For behold, the LORD will come in fire and His chariots like the whirlwind, To render His anger with fury, And His rebuke with flames of fire. Isaiah 66: 16...
We sowed to the whirlwind. We will reap, but God has a plan. Everything that can be shaken will be shaken and the righteous will stand. The Left seeks to bring down the Church. It is more powerful than the government. They just don’t know. Darkness intends to usurp America. It ...
So for the last three years, I’ve felt like a pinball bouncing around. No time to catch my breath. My first year as a doctor was a whirlwind. I loved it. But I struggled to find balance in my life. I struggled to find time to collect my thoughts. And I struggled to find time...
If self-giving love is in the nature of God, if it is the ultimate destiny for those who follow Christ, then why do we fail so bad? Loving another person as one’s self is difficult even in marriage, where the fire of romance burns. My wife Rebecca and I dated and broke up twice...
As hard as we try to ‘keep Christ in Christmas,” we miss Him because He is hidden in the lights, the glitter, the shopping, and the entertainment. Aside from what has become known as Christmas, there are blessings made null and void by man’s traditions. What man has set up for ...
Inside work is accomplished with the tools and talents He has gifted me with, and done for His purposes in faith, even if I cannot see the results of that work in the time frame I hope for or expect. That work much of the time is unseen and unappreciated by the world, even as it...