Today’s Scripture says the goal is love. Love is a pretty nice goal. But let’s face it: It’s hard to live out this goal in our dog-eat-dog culture. We are surrounded at every turn by those who would rather be self-righteous than kind, superior than sincere, and whose allegiance to any form of conscience died or […]
Death of a Loved One provides the most crystal clear example of Overcoming by getting through something. One never really gets over the loss of a loved one. It’s a testament to love that we don’t just snap our fingers and get over the death of a spouse, a parent, a child, a friend, a […]
He’s too young to be retired, but his boss didn’t think so. He saw the writing on the wall and knew that the golden parachute is better than no parachute. Retired sounds much better than being fired, but it feels oddly the same. He feels ashamed. He avoids the neighbors and when he’s alone, he fights […]
I haven’t written a gardening post in a while, but it doesn’t mean that I haven’t been gardening this year. My body’s been in the garden every day, but my mind has been forever elsewhere. You see, even while I’m gardening, I’m thinking theology. Take the other morning, for example. I went out to edge […]
Today we conclude our Scriptural basis for Overcoming in our series on 5 Kingdom Principles in Jesus’ Example for Suffering Christians. Next week, we will explore how these principles apply to everyday issues. These Scriptural principles apply in every situation. You see, Overcoming isn’t passé or old-fashioned. It is every bit as relevant today as it was […]
We’re concluding our look at 5 Kingdom Principles in Jesus’ Example for Suffering Christians (found in 1 Peter 2:21-23) with the fifth principle: Kingdom Power. When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; when he suffered, he made no threats. Instead, he entrusted himself to him who judges justly. (1 Peter 2: […]
In one masterful moment, in one supreme act of sacrificial love, in one climax of redemptive history, the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, Jesus Christ who was fully God and fully man, went to the Cross. It is there that He died because God’s justice and His love are […]
I’m going to jump ahead a bit to talk about the Just War, mainly because of the present danger and horrible decision facing the United States and the world. Within the past 48 hours, the Pope prayed with the faithful from around the world on a day he set aside for prayer and fasting. The […]
Is God a Just God? As I was looking at a variety of hymns for the topic of entrusting one’s cause to Christ (the final principle in our series on Overcoming), I discovered that many of the hymns on standing firm in the Christian battle– trusting in a Just God–arose out of war protests or are […]
1 Peter 2:23 When they hurled their insults at him, he did not retaliate; This week, we will begin talking about the Kingdom Time Frame as we continue our look at the 5 Kingdom Principles for the Overcomer found in 1 Peter 2:21-23. From what I can tell, there are no hymns written specifically for […]
