I caught a glimpse of something terrible Monday night. The imagery came straight from the pages of Scripture, but what the Scripture says affected me. Suddenly I felt what was being described. And it scared me. It broke my heart. The Scripture passage was Malachi 4:1-3: “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer…
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I don’t know if I’ve confessed this before, but I’m no lover of math. In fact, I successfully got around my required Calculus credit for my bachelor’s degree by taking Applied Statistics for Social Sciences. That was surely an answer to prayer! Now, my friend and church brother Guy Buckner is all about math. I think he even sees the world in…
Jesus told us in John 16:33 that in this world, in this lifetime, we will have trouble. There will be pain, tribulation, and suffering, and in the wake of trouble comes grief. Grief is a common human experience. We all know what it is because we’ve all been through it. Perhaps you are in grief…
In response to Glenn Beck’s TV show, which aired Wednesday, August 18, I decided to voice some concern to him. Maybe you’re not aware that Mr. Beck is a Mormon. Spiritually, that’s troublesome to me because Mormonism is a false religion, but I still listen often to Glenn Beck for his political insight. His Mormonism doesn’t really come to bear, with the exemption of…
I ran across this interesting piece of insight into hell by Pastor Joe Thorn. Hell is one of the most misunderstood realities by the general population. Myths abound about it, but after reading this article, I consider the myths busted! Joe writes the following: Over the years I have encountered a number of myths about hell attached to people’s theology. Some are…
Ben Franklin once said, “In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.” While I appreciate his wit and agree that those two things are an unfortunate mainstay, there are, of course, many more certainties we can expect in this age. For the Christian, one certainty, I’m sad to say, is persecution. Suffering of this type is particularly commonplace for Christians…
One of the great testimonial songs in the hymnal begins this way: Blessed assurance, Jesus is mine! O what a foretaste of glory divine! In the midst of life’s storms, assurance that God will never let you go is a wonderful comfort. The fact that you, no matter the situation, will be victorious in the end through Christ is a soothing balm…
As one looks at the life of Job (pronounced Jōb) in Scripture, nobody can deny the fact that Job suffered greatly. In one day through major catastrophic events, he lost his great number of livestock, his many servants, and all ten of his children. Soon thereafter, he was smitten with a terrible disease, causing black, burning boils to break out on his…
As I meditated on the life of Joseph this past week found in the book of Genesis, I began to wonder about Joseph’s prayer life. I mean, Joseph was a man of God, right? Didn’t Joseph ever pray in the midst of his calamities? In the pit, surely Joseph earnestly prayed to God that he would be restored back to his father’s…
Bad things happen. The reality of calamity isn’t news to anybody. Just live long enough and you’ll know it firsthand. But the “why” question is usually what’s burning on everybody’s heart. Do you ever wonder why bad things happen? I’m not talking about the immediate cause, like the accelerator sticking on a Toyota Camry. I’m talking about ultimate cause. Now, the atheist…