What do people around the world believe? Keeping a few basic principles in mind will help us better understand the major world religions that appear in this brief overview. First, let’s temporarily suspend judgment as we seek to understand what others believe. If we judge too quickly, we may be judging a perversion of that […]
Grief is all around us. As I write this our nation is grieving the death of a revered United States senator. Our Christian community is grieving the tragic death of a teenager in a car accident. In our neighborhood there is someone in grief. It is a part of life. Grief is an emotional response […]
Years ago Dr. Marshall Leggett was preaching on Acts 10, 11 at Broadway Christian Church in Lexington, Kentucky, and his opening line of the message was, “That door just keeps getting wider.” One cannot read the Book of Acts without being impressed with the wide embrace of the inclusiveness of God. Acts is the story […]
They’re almost too small to see, but it’s hard to imagine what we would do without them. This page contains dozens of them, but if I didn’t point them out you would never notice them. By the time you finish reading this sentence three of them already will have passed your eyes, but you weren’t […]
Jesus’ last words to his disciples were a stirring charge to spread the gospel beyond the comfortable homelands of Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria, all the way to the ends of the earth (Acts 1:8). They quickly discovered that some of the places at the known ends of the earth were not entirely hospitable to the […]
