Americans have always placed a premium on individualism. But, in the Coronavirus pandemic, we have carried individualism to a new level. To avoid going out, some people are trying to get “off the grid” by generating their own power, planting their own gardens, or doing anything else imaginable. We see this same problem in our…
Many Americans received their stimulus checks last week.1 If you haven’t received yours yet, it will be arriving soon. What will you do with this money? Invest in the stock market? Finish that home remodel project? Buy a nicer TV? As Christians, we understand that everything we have belongs to God, including our money (1…
How long, O you sons of men, will you turn my glory to shame? How long will you love worthlessness and seek falsehood? Selah. (Psalm 4:2) Have you ever heard of “The Teabag Principle?” Here’s how it works: When you are in hot water, the “real you” will come out! Your troubles always show you…
Regretting transgenders, victims of abuse, PTDS sufferers, anyone feeling damaged in mind and body—this passage of scripture is for you. It’s Isaiah’s message of hope to the eunuchs of the captivity (Isaiah 56:4-5). The practice of the Babylonians was to take the best and brightest from the countries they conquered and use their talents and…
“I am the bomb…” —C.S. Lewis, Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics I’ve been slowly working my way through Letters of C. S. Lewis and in these letters, Lewis discusses his first book, Spirits in Bondage: A Cycle of Lyrics. He wrote to his father in 1918 about how he had amused himself over…
When we consider the state of our world — full of fear, frustration, overreaching government, faithlessness, clamoring media, vicious politics, neighbors set against neighbors, restrictions, job losses, illness, and deaths — would you say we might come away a little defeated? Many things in the news every day get us down. That was true even…
Have you heard of any good medicines? Some recent advertisements have touted treatments that are supposed to be good for you. But after you hear the long list of bad side effects, you begin to wonder if the cure is worse than the condition! So it is with many medicines. But there is a medicine,…
Psalm 88 is a lament. The psalmist is greatly distressed and emotional. Most interpreters of the psalm believe the reason for the distress lies in some type of terminal illness. Loneliness and spiritual distress accompany physical illness. The psalm reflects this as well. Many psalms have a theme which connects judgment from God with the…
In an article in Christianity Today this last week, Jim Denison made the claim that Covid-19 is NOT the judgment of God. He made the claim based upon two arbitrary standards for the judgment of God. He said it cannot be God’s judgment because it is not miraculous and because it does not target a…
I first encountered Janos, a Hungarian Jew, at Living Water Baptist Church in Budapest. He is a professed atheist. His mother survived Auschwitz, and I suspect that his family history has a lot to do with his rejection of God. His confusion may in part be due to a failure to take the first three…