Last week I made the point that our current political upheaval is not political or cultural in its origin – but is spiritual. Our problem is, as Alexander Solzhenitsyn said, “Men have forgotten God.” We also made the point, from James 3:15-16, that worldly wisdom is...
Men have forgotten God Alexander Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize for literature, was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and communism, and as a result, spent years in the Soviet Gulag, a forced labor-camp system. Through worldwide political pressure, he was eventually freed,...
Winston Churchill is often regarded as the master of insults. You may be familiar with his famous exchange with Lady Astor after she said, “Winston, if you were my husband, I’d put poison in your coffee. Churchill replied “And if you were my wife, I would...
In the current season of unusual controversy and conflict in our nation, Christians must make sure we get our cues on how to respond to conflict, not from culture but from Scripture. So much of our conversation has degenerated into name-calling, issue-baiting, and knee-jerk overreactions. Less...
Saturday is Independence Day in the USA – the 4th of July! This is a hard year to be happy celebrating the 4th of July. Many fireworks displays have been cancelled because of the Coronavirus pandemic, and the political polarization in our country right now...
“This generation is the first to turn hate into an asset.” So begins an important new book, A Gentle Answer, by Scott Sauls. It is a quote by Dr. John Perkins, an 89-year-old Christian minister and civil rights icon who has suffered greatly at the hands...
It seems hard to believe, but where I live, we are in our 14th week of Coronavirus quarantine. Like other states, we are systematically beginning to reopen our economy and social structure, and are praying for the best as we do. We’ve been through another unsettling...
For the last several months, the coronavirus pandemic has dominated our every waking hour. Social distancing, the efficacy of masks, and the readiness to reopen were virtually the only subjects being discussed on national media. And now this past week, overnight, the pandemic was utterly eclipsed...
When we share our faith, *“we are not selling, we’re telling.” For the last two weeks, I blogged on why people don’t believe in God. After all, God crafted the created world with enough certainty to believe in Him if one wants to. Psalm 19:1-2 says, “The...
Last week, we looked at three possible reasons why people do not believe in God: Lack of information Some people have only ever been taught evolution and have never heard the compelling evidence for the existence of God. When they finally do hear it, they believe...