Have You Ever Been Chained With Words?
May 25, 2020
It was a shocking story that gripped the nation. In 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was abducted at knifepoint from her bed in the middle of the night in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her family searched for her in vain. Nine months later she was recognized while walking down a street with her abductor.
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Your telephone rings or you meet someone in the parking lot of the church and you are asked, “Have you heard about (and the name of a popular Christian leader is mentioned)? Your friend begins to relate a sordid story of moral failure and your immediate reaction is, “I never thought it could happen to that person! I just saw a feature on his leadership and accomplishments in a leading periodical. I just can’t believe he would do that!” You are shocked and stunned. Yes, you know that the best of men are but men at their best, but you always felt that this person was a cut above the moral failures that have besmirched the cause of Christ and brought shame and reproach to a broken-hearted wife and family.
May 22, 2020
The country of Turkey is 99% Muslim and if you are a Christian young person, life can be hard. At school, your loyalty to your country can be questioned; you feel excluded, explains educator Catherine Hoard. This is why every year many Christian children attend Christian camps where both they and their faith are embraced and nurtured. A child may be the only Christian in their school, but at camp they are surrounded by those who, just like them, believe in Jesus.
May 21, 2020
What do you do when you are afraid? That is the question that Andrew Brunson asks. Brunson is a soft-spoken man with a kind-looking face. He is also a man that knows something about fear. Brunson is an American pastor who was unjustly imprisoned by the Turkish government for two years, held as a political pawn on outlandish, false charges. Under three life sentences, he sometimes suffered in solitary confinement and at other times he was jammed in cells that were crowded to double capacity. Brunson was the only non-Muslim. Conditions alternated between brain-boiling hot in the summer and mind-numbing freezing cold in winter.
May 20, 2020
Good marriages have a lot of things in common, while unhappy marriages are as different in as many ways as there are unhappy people married to each other. Yet the factors which make for either being happy or unhappy are often far more predictable than most folks think. Dr. John Gottman is a psychologist and researcher and based upon his findings published in the Journal of Family Psychology, it is indeed possible to predict, with 94% accuracy, which marriages will end in failure long before the couples are ready to call it quits.
May 19, 2020
For 88 years, the Royal Bank of Canada produced a monthly letter that had a huge readership. "It has become almost habitual in these grim days," the letter opened with in 2003, "for political and economic commentators to speak of a ‘crisis of confidence.' Looking back, if we thought we were in a crisis of confidence then, today, we can apply that phrase to governments, global health, the economy and personal relationships. Belief and trust have given way to doubt and skepticism. The confidence that we once may have had in an institution, or a person, or even the future, has eroded and what we have left is a crisis marked by uncertainty and conjecture.
May 18, 2020
Theology is the study of God, but in the street use of the word, your theology is what you believe about God. Historically, the Church has based its theology upon the written Word of God, the Bible, with tradition affirming the position which godly men and women have held down through the centuries.
May 15, 2020
Many of us today prefer not to get involved. "Let government meet this need," we say, or we think, "I'm not qualified to handle this." We quickly excuse ourselves from even attempting to reach out to someone who is in pain. There are professionals to handle things like that and hurting people make us uncomfortable.
May 14, 2020
Love is all you need, sang the British rock band, the Beatles, in 1967, during what was called the “Summer of Love.” And whether or not the kind of love the Beatles were singing of is really what the world needed, it is true that our world would be a drab and desolate place apart from the greenery of love. Jesus Christ talked a lot about love. In fact, the subject of love was so important to Him that he talked with his followers about love in His last meal with them on earth.
May 13, 2020
Roses are perhaps the world’s favorite flower. However, there is a facet of growing roses that we don’t focus on—fertilizing. Yet, fertilizer is a very necessary part of growing beautiful blooms. Unfortunately, the best fertilizer to produce lovely roses is the natural type that smells very badly. No one likes the odor, but everyone likes the results. This fertilizer, however, can be compared to the painful experiences of life, especially those that come through the difficult people we all encounter.
May 12, 2020
What do you do to change when dishonesty has become a way of life, when it is just as easy for you to look someone in the eye and lie as it is to breathe and sleep? To the Corinthians, who knew something firsthand about dishonesty and deceit, Paul wrote, "Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" (2 Corinthians 5:17). In God's sight, conversion makes you a new person; yet the fact remains that the ongoing change in your life, the result of God's Holy Spirit working within, takes time. Conversion isn't an instant transformation from dishonesty to moral perfection.
May 11, 2020
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