By David Faust When listing God’s attributes, it’s common to mention his love, justice, wrath, and grace. Here’s an attribute we often overlook: God is honest. Honesty is simply another word for truthfulness, and truth is simply another word for reality. God is always honest with us. There’s nothing fake about him—no pretense or fraud. […]
By David Faust We don’t take God seriously enough. • Listen to our conversations. Do we take his name in vain? • Look at our money. It says, “In God we trust,” but do we trust him above all else? • Observe our worship gatherings. Are the songs about God or about us? Are we there to praise […]
By David Faust When you go grocery shopping, do you ever get one of those shopping carts that has a crooked wheel? It’s hard to push the cart when it’s out of alignment. Alignment is important in a car. If all four wheels aren’t aligned, the tires wear out faster, the steering wheel shakes, and […]
By David Faust It’s a common saying. You experience a minor mishap and shrug your shoulders. You dent your car’s bumper. Your cell phone bites the dust. You waste money on an impulse purchase that turns out to be nonreturnable. “Oh well,” you say to yourself, “it’s not the end of the world.” You may […]
By David Faust Far back in a field on the farm where I grew up, there’s a tree our family for decades has called the Saxophone Tree. It’s rooted in the ground atop a creek bank. At first the oak’s two-and-a-half-foot thick trunk extends down about eight feet toward the creek. Then, as if it […]
