A student recently asked me what the world would have looked like if Adam and Eve had never sinned. Of course, I have no idea what such a world would have looked like and I confessed as much. Another student then asked why God would make people who would choose to sin to begin with. […]
Faith in God is like a muscle in the body. It has to be stretched to be strong. Each of the Old Testament people we have studied this month had their faith stretched. Abel stretched his faith with his sacrifice. Enoch and Noah stretched their faith in their daily walk. Eleazar stretched his faith is […]
My youngest granddaughter hasn’t reached her second birthday yet, but she’s quick on her feet, zooming around so fast I can barely keep up with her. And she keeps adding new words to her vocabulary. I brag that she’s bilingual because she says agua, the Spanish word for water. She’s fond of short words. One […]
Several years ago, I received a knock on my office door. One of the young women in our college-age ministry was standing outside with a perplexed look on her face. I invited her in, asking her what was troubling her, noting her obvious frustration. “I think God is calling me, but I have no idea […]
“Another reason I wrote you was to see if you would stand the test and be obedient in everything” (2 Corinthians 2:9). A friend of mine once told me that obedience is God’s love language. Obedience is a hard word to understand because we tend to focus on the what rather than the why. For […]
