One thing that doesn’t change is that every generation struggles with change! And the church is no pauper in this experience. Contemporary vs. traditional, progressive vs. conservative, new vs. old. What was once new, freedom encouraging and refreshing to a new generation becomes old, conservative, traditional to the next.
Read A.B. Bruce’s take on this phenomena [...]
What a difference 10 years has made. Then – there was panic hovering just below the surface, fearing that major computer systems around the nation (world) would bog down due to outmoded computer code that stored year dates as 2 digit numbers (for example 99 and 00) rather than 4 digits (1999 and 2000). Ancient [...]
“We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is ‘good,’ because is it good, if ‘bad’ because it works in us patience, humility, and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country” C. S. Lewis
“You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make [...]
He cut me off, almost drove me into the guard rail. What’s that crazy driver doing? I know what I’ll do, I’ll pull up beside him at the next light and give him the evil eye! He’ll know what I’m thinking. That’ll show ‘im.
He just ruined my day with anger and frustration. Things [...]
Ephesians 4:12-13 “…to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God.”
I was struck by the phrase, “… attain to the unity of the faith.” The most common critique [...]
Johnny Hart captures an apologetic nugget of wisdom. People are ever pursuing purpose and meaning in life…and they settle one finding purpose in the search for purpose, not in something that will actually give them purpose. That is like a person searching for water, and then becoming satisfied with the search and not needing the [...]
I just read today (somewhere in the Gospel of Luke) that the kingdom of heaven is a like a small seed that grows into a large tree and becomes home to the birds. This made me appreciate the local church of God in these difficult times. In our small church we have a number of [...]
Date line February 18, 2009, McClatchy Newspapers, Miami: “Maimi bank exec gives $60M to his employees.” After cashing in on his 83 percent shares in City National Bancshares last November, Leonard Abess, Jr. distributed $60 million to tellers, bookkeepers, clerks and everyone else on the payroll. Some received more than $100,000 and most up to [...]
No one is doubting anymore that the world is in a financial recession. The US congress and president are trying to hammer out an economic stimulus plan that would pour billions upon billions of dollars into the economy with the hopes of blunting the effects of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. [...]
“You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ”. (Gal 3:26-27 NIV)
It has been said, though not without some dissention, that “clothes make a man.” I know this to be somewhat true for me in terms of how I [...]