I have written infrequently over the past two years in my blog, mostly because I have been busy with the nuts and bolts of an expansive job. But the reality of my first two years in my new position is that the leaders in the SDB General Conference, both in local churches and at the Conference level, are under a targeted spiritual attack which is taking a toll on themselves, their families, and their churches. When we encounter such things, the Bible entreats us to pray. That’s where you come in.
In Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus, the main characters destroy one another. Increasingly, discourse in the West is becoming less and less civil as people take aim at one another. Such personal attacks are never appropriate for a Christ follower.
“…God is love.” -the Apostle John, in his first letter, verse 4:8b “Those who wish to succeed must ask the right preliminary questions.” -Aristotle, in Metaphysics “…Of course language is not an infallible guide, but
“…God does not give us gifts, talents and abilities so that we can look at one another and determine our relative worth to Him by them.”
America is in the midst of a food revolution. Never before have so many Americans cared so much about their food. Documentaries expose the conditions under which our mass produced food come to us.
I have been formulating several entries for the blog in recent weeks, along the lines of identifying modern cults and idols. Those posts may yet come, if I have the courage to post them.
4 Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God, 6 who has made us sufficient to
As I say in my “About Me” page on this blog, I am a historian by vocation at present. I started in that work about eight and a half years ago. I came to
For two years early in my seminary days, I lived in the Denver, Colorado area. I moved there when I was 23, and my roommate was a close friend who was also going to
Today, I want to reflect briefly about guilt in the circles I walk in. As part of the way my life is structured, I have the blessed opportunity to relate to both believers and