As part of her article “Using the Love Commandment to Talk COVID-19 with Kids,” Christian ethicist Kate Ott collected drawings and quotes from children engaging in the topic of loving your neighbors during the pandemic.
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Someone wrote, “we pray in the Lord’s Prayer that God give us our daily bread, which he does. He does so, not directly as when he gave manna to the Israelites, but through the work of farmers and bakers-and we might add truck drivers and retailers…
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A well-known pastor says this about our everyday life, “To taste the sweetness of ordinary joys, we learn to enter each day with a conviction about the givenness of all things…. We’ve been given a place to be, some things to do, a need for sustenance, and a people to share this with.
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The definition of faithful is “loyal, constant, steadfast.” To remain faithful is sadly rare in today’s world.
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In this life there will be great trouble and pain. But God is not the author of evil.
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When you think of a Bible story, what scene comes to mind first? Is it young David picking up stones to kill Goliath?
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You know, when the coronavirus was in its heyday, and there was lockdown, people were staying away from each other six feet, etc. etc. one of the themes that broke out was loneliness.
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Recently I’ve noticed in the newspapers, magazines, and television shows a lot of talk about meditation. Some of it is taken from eastern religions, some of it is sort of psychological, some of it is just the creation of some individual who writes a book and gets a movement going.
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I started reading the Bible as a teenager for myself, and really spending time on my knees reading the Bible, meditating on it, and thinking of God’s ways for my life, I found…
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You know, when you look around the world now and in the past, we often ask ourselves, “What is God doing in the world today? Why does He allow this or that to happen?
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One of the great enemies of our hope is forgetting God’s promises. We must remind ourselves regularly of His goodness.
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It can feel like the COVID-19 virus has brought the entire planet to a screeching halt. Festivals are cancelled.
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In a Wall Street Journal article I once read, Joseph Loconte explored the example Jesus set after His resurrection for our evangelism efforts today. He wrote, “In all of the New Testament’s resurrection accounts, the method of Jesus for winning hearts and minds- his emphasis on peaceful persuasion- couldn’t be plainer.
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In Gene Edward Veith’s book, “The Spirituality of the Cross” he writes, “Every proclamation of the Gospel, whether in a sermon or in a layperson’s informal witnessing to a friend, is a dissemination of God’s Word.
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I read an interesting article some time ago in the Wall Street Journal. Kathleen Hughes wrote about finding true greatness by rethinking priorities and everyday uses of time.
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If you’ve grown up in the church and spent a lot of your time around other Christians, you may assume that most people are just like you. You may think that the majority of people know who God is, and that a lot of people probably believe in Him too.
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Technology is amazing. None of us could ever have imagined twenty years ago that it would be possible to carry small computers in our pockets.
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I once saw a puppy encounter a new toy for the first time. He ran to it, but then quickly jumped backwards, suddenly afraid of it.
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Do you know the classic, famous movie It’s a Wonderful Life starring Jimmy Stewart? I know, I know. It’s an old Christmas movie, and it’s not even close to Christmastime.
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We hear lots of stories about people who strike up a conversation with a stranger on the bus, only to lead him or her to Christ before they reach their destination. Those are great stories, and God uses those random meetings to bring people into His family.
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