Lately I have been needing extra comfort. At times my soul had been sad and weary. When it gets that way my old ways of coping are to control the situation and figure out a way through it. But, when I come to my godly senses, I turn my eyes upward to Yahweh and His Son, ...
Romans 6:11. So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
In a recent sermon the minister gave an example of a dead man in a casket who loved Reese’s candy. He asked the question, “When a man is dead, if someone put a package of ...
In women, the modern west exclusively values youth. Our overpowering cultural narrative is fix your wrinkles, dye your hair, lose the weight, get the facelift. Paula Freolich, writing for The Free Press, tells an anecdote:
Over the summer I was at a dinner party in the ...
By Jeff Deuble
In a card game, we don’t have a say in what cards are dealt to us, but we do get to choose what card we will play in response to what’s “on the table”. Similarly, in life we don’t necessarily control the events or circumstances we’re “dealt” – our DNA, ...
I would like to begin with a true story about a woman named Florence Chadwick. In July 1952, on a foggy morning, Florence waded into the chilly waters off Catalina Island. Her goal was to swim the channel to the California coast. The water was numbing cold that day. The fog ...
The Apostle Paul’s love for God’s people shines brightly in his communication with Philemon and offers us an exemplary model of Christian love and leadership to emulate.
Philemon 1:1. Paul, a prisoner of Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, to Philemon our beloved ...
In both the Old and New Testaments, we see that God expects us to love our neighbors as ourselves (Lev 19:18; Mark 12:31). Although we often focus on the “love your neighbor” part, today I’d like to draw attention to the “as yourself ” part. Why should you love yourself? ...
Psalm 77 is unique in that it shows the psalmist Asaph in a terrible conflict within himself, what causes that conflict, and then the solution of deliverance. This is all in the first 15 verses of the psalm. Studying this psalm, I realized how many times I have fallen into ...
