Posts tagged “God”
The arc of history
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is credited with saying that the arc of the universe bends toward justice. I think that’s true because God…
The last word
I recently watched a national news anchor interview a potential presidential candidate. The news commentator iterated to the presidential hopeful a laundry list of…
The allure of screens
The book of Proverbs, written around three thousand years ago, doesn’t say much about tablets and TikTok, but it can teach us wisdom with…
Do you expect good leaders?
For the past handful of years, people from both political parties in the U.S. haven’t exactly been thrilled with the president. It’s as if…
Evil is real. But so is God.
From naivety to naming evil In 1978 renowned psychiatrist M. Scott Peck published The Road Less Traveled. The book was a massive success, selling…
Your homeland is a gift from God
God has a long history of blessing people by giving them homes. The Israelites in Canaan … Joseph and Mary in Egypt … Jacob’s…
Grievances
It didn’t take too long after sin entered the world for people to start harboring grievances. Cain killed his brother Abel because Cain was…
Seek justice for the defenseless
“The King is mighty, he loves justice—you have established equity; in Jacob you have done what is just and right” (Psalm 99:4). Justice is…
God loves the abused
A few years back, a pastor told me about the funny way our minds do math. He had just read a study that said…
God hates abuse
A man came to my office and confessed to me that he had been abusive with his girlfriend. After expressing my grave concern for…
God is close to the abused
While abuse is not a comfortable topic to talk about, we need to. If the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s statistics are correct,…
Stop looking for a savior
Elon Musk just bought Twitter. Some are decrying this development because they don’t like a billionaire having so much control over this app. Others…