While you may strive daily to look and feel your best, what really motivates you? Is it that size 4 dress you have been wanting to get into for years, your upcoming high school reunion, your brush with a weight-related ...
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Does Prayer Really Change Things?
The front-page headline from the New York Daily News following a mass shooting in December screamed “God Isn’t Fixing This,” and various other outlets ran articles deriding people for offering “thoughts and prayers” to those involved. It was an attack ...
Read More »10 New Year’s Resolutions That Will Change Your Spiritual Life
According to Statistic Brain, the top 10 New Year’s Resolutions for 2015 were: (1) lose weight, (2) get organized, (3) spend less and save more, (4) enjoy life to the fullest, (5) stay fit and healthy, (6) learn something exciting, ...
Read More »Putting The ‘Thanks’ Back Into ‘Thanksgiving’
In the U.S., we start at an early age learning about the Pilgrims crossing the sea to escape religious persecution and landing in what is now Massachusetts. We learn about their hardships and troubles and how the native Indians helped ...
Read More »The Thanksgiving Blessing Almost Everyone Forgets
“You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.” Charles Haddon Spurgeon How Do ...
Read More »Physician-Assisted Suicide: What Does The Bible Say?
Physician-assisted suicide is now legal in California. The recent story of Brittany Maynard, a young newlywed diagnosed with brain cancer who moved from California to Oregon so she could use that state’s system of legal suicide, prompted the California legislature ...
Read More »The ‘Slow Fade’ Of Compromising On Sin
Looking out the window at the world today, I have to wonder how we got here. Christians are promoting homosexuality as natural, supporting the transgender and gender neutral movements, accepting abortion as a viable choice, and siding with marriage infidelity ...
Read More »The Bible, Slavery And The ‘Home-Born Slave’
Our Lord Jesus was so in love with his undertaking that he would not go out free from it, and therefore engaged to persevere for ever in it; and for this reason he is able to save us to the ...
Read More »What Does An ‘Eye For An Eye’ Really Mean?
I told them [the Texas legislature] that the only answer to the crime problem is to take nonviolent criminals out of our prisons and make them pay back their victims with restitution. —Chuck Colson, Transforming Our World (1988) But modern ...
Read More »What Does The Bible Say About Work?
There is a debate in intellectual circles about whether or how much people should work. The debate isn’t new. Nearly a century ago the famous progressive economist John Maynard Keynes argued that we shouldn’t work so much, believing that eventually ...
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