Because I do not believe God, because I do not search the thicket expectantly for the ram caught by its horns (Gen 22:13), because my faith is small, I do not sacrifice as I should. There is within me, within us, a nagging suspicion which makes us hesitate, makes us …
Let us compare sin to the very earth on which we live in all its mass and grandeur, to the valleys low, mountains high and storms that rage within. Beyond all argument mortal men cannot overcome the earth. We might domesticate its tracts of land, tame its animals, or destroy …
I have striven with all the intensity in me to live and exemplify that selfless love, that unconditional love, which God’s word requires. The only thing I can say right now is that it is costly. This same self-giving love cost our savior His life and for a while it …
Zechariah had a problem, he was elderly and his wife Elizabeth was elderly, yet the angel Gabriel was telling him Elizabeth would have a baby. He was a righteous man, a Godly man, but when Gabriel spoke—Zechariah doubted. You can hardly blame him. Sure he had the example of Abraham …