What Faith Lived Out Looks Like
January 4, 2019
Ernest Hemingway once said that "courage is fear that has prayed!" If he's right, then a man in Zamboanga has that kind of stuff. In the event that the city of Zamboanga doesn't register with you, allow me to explain that this is one of the principal cities in Mindanao, southern Philippines, an area which has been torn by strife.
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In a tribal area in Northern Luzon in the Philippines, a witch doctor sprinkles chicken blood on the door posts of a new house and chants a prayer asking that the spirits bless the residents. In Yangon merchants step out of their sandals and walk barefooted up the steps to the great Shedagon Pagoda and sit in contemplation before a golden Buddha. Half-way around the world, families fill parking lots, then with Bibles under their arms stream into churches looking more like modern shopping centers than traditional ones with spires and organs. While their paths to God may be as divergent as the distance between the three groups I mentioned, all of them, right or wrong, are reaching out to God as they conceive him to be.
January 3, 2019
He hated being a celebrity, but he was always in the news. He longed for a simple life yet his was often complex and confusing. He was a young and inexperienced speaker, yet he spent his life confronting world leaders. His name: Jeremiah. If you check that name out in a dictionary, you’ll find a definition, taken from the life of this seventh century prophet, which tells you that a Jeremiah is “one who is pessimistic about the present and foresees a calamitous future.”
January 2, 2019
Suppose you had awakened at the stroke of 12:01 a.m. on January 1, and there, standing before you, was an individual in shining clothing which you immediately recognized as an angel, and you then heard these words: “The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged” (Deuteronomy 31:8). Would you be afraid to tackle the New Year?
January 1, 2019
Today is the first day of the year, and to be honest with you, it’s almost a bit scary staring another year in the face. Looking behind we think, “What happened to the good intentions and resolutions we made a year ago—ones which we have not only failed in attaining but can’t even remember what they were?”
December 31, 2018
It’s an old story but one worth repeating. A man rushed into the railroad station and breathlessly asked, “When does the 8:01 leave?” “At 8:01,” replied the railroad clerk, not bothering to look up from his newspaper. “Well,” said the man, “it’s only 7:55 by my watch,” but, somewhat worried, added, “it’s 8:04 by the station clock. Which one should I go by?” Sardonically the railroad clerk replied, “You can go by any clock you wish, but you won’t be going on the 8:01 because it has already left.”
December 28, 2018
Christmas is over, at least it is for most of you. However, in some places such as in Russia, Christmas is observed in early January. But no matter when you celebrate Christmas, there comes a time when it is over; and when it is over, it is over.
December 27, 2018
It’s the day after Christmas and all through the house there are piles of junk, cast off toys, and piles of unwanted gifts to be returned as soon as possible. Perhaps you’re hoping to exchange the flannel shirt Uncle Joe gave you (which you suspect was given to him at the office Christmas party). The kids have already found that the cardboard boxes their toys came in are more interesting to play with than the items which the boxes originally contained, something that creates a dark cynicism asking, “Is this all the thanks I get for working so hard to buy this stuff?”
December 26, 2018
The two were arrested and thrown into prison. Days turned into weeks and weeks into months. China is a vast country, but what many do not realize is that in the northern part of China it gets very cold as the Siberian winds come whistling from the north.
December 25, 2018
Over the course of my whole life I’ve heard my dad say, "God is seldom early, but He is never late!" I’ve seen this truth over and over. God is precisely on time! But nothing demonstrates the importance of His perfect timing any more than the birth of Jesus Christ. Had Christ's coming been either early or later, Old Testament prophecies would not have been accurately fulfilled.
December 24, 2018
If you are a student of the Bible, perhaps some of your hardest going has been getting through the dietary laws of Leviticus or the “so and so begat so and so” of Genesis. Unless we’ve taken the project on as a hobby, most of us know little about where our family line came from or who our grandparents were much more than a generation or two back. But people in ancient Israel placed great importance on just who they were and where their families had come from.
December 21, 2018
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