Christians and Culture by Dr. Tim Woodroof Bedraggled men wear signs announcing it. Ministers with over-heated imaginations write novels visualizing it. Preachers pound pulpits proclaiming it. The end of the world. The Day of Judgment. The Second Coming. Even poets bravely broach the subject. Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in […]
If you can keep your head . . .
Christians and Culture by Dr. Tim Woodruff Rudyard Kipling’s famous poem If opens with the line, “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs” and closes with the encouragement, “you’ll be a man, my son.” Whatever you may think of the poem’s merits (as either poetry or philosophy), the lines […]
Painted with the same brush
Christians and Culture by Dr. Tim Woodroof For it is commendable if a man bears up under the pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God. But how is it to your credit if you receive a beating for doing wrong and endure it? But if you suffer for doing good and you […]
Whose friend are we?
Dr. Tim Woodroof He looked at me with haunted eyes, the busy coffee shop forgotten, inviting me into a private moment that, sometimes, pain creates. He’d been a believer all his life. Married a Christian girl. Worked in the ministry. Prayed with his family. Went to church. He was a true believer too. Not a […]
Making an uplifting difference in a down economy
Christians and Culture by Dr. Tim Woodroof Christians don’t look at or react to life the way non-Christians do. At least, they shouldn’t. Let me offer a few examples from Scripture. We don’t view death like “the rest of mankind, who have no hope” (1 Thessalonians 4:13). We don’t regard other people “from a worldly […]
