True Women’s Liberation Women in our culture are being sold a bill of goods. There are voices in our society that say to them, “you can be just as good as a man”. This is a step down, because you already are equal with men, and maybe then some. Some would say that Christianity denigrates […]
Monthly Archives: March 2013
But Jesus was saying, “Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing” (Luke 23:34 NASB). Saint Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was a man who lived Jesus’ words, “Father, forgive them.” Through his forgiving heart, he found his destiny and changed a nation. Patrick was actually not from Ireland; he […]
No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that you will be able to endure it (I Corinthians 10:13 NASB). God […]
Once the trees went forth to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, ‘Reign over us!’ 9 But the olive tree said to them, ‘Shall I leave my fatness with which God and men are honored, and go to wave over the trees?’ (Judges 9:8-9 NASB) There is a simple […]
The Lord said to Gideon, “The people who are with you are too many for Me to give Midian into their hands, for Israel would become boastful, saying, ‘My own power has delivered me.’ (Judges 7:2 NASB) In Israel’s battles with their enemies God seems to delight in placing them as an underdog. George […]
Then Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, then I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.” (Judges 4:8 NASB) Deborah and Barak formed a relationship based on mutual need and a common desire to position the purposes of God above theirs. Both were […]
In fact, some parts of the body that seem weakest and least important are actually the most necessary (I Corinthians 12:22 NLT). In the Body of Christ the weak generally understand that they need the strong, but do the strong understand their need for the weak? Does the head on a physical body have […]
For if I do wish to boast I will not be foolish, for I will be speaking the truth; but I refrain from this, so that no one will credit me with more than he sees in me or hears from me (II Corinthians 12:6 NASB). The Apostle Paul was a man of humility. […]