One “No” In a World Full of “Yeses”: The Distorted Focus We Have on that which is Forbidden Rather than what is Permitted
God gives us more permissions than restrictions in this life, and the restrictions He does give are given out of love.
Category: Hope
The Improbable Death of the Greatest King Ever
How could someone who was powerful enough to be born of a Virgin not also be powerful enough to prevent Himself from suffering and dying?
The Virtue of Perseverance
Perseverance cannot develop without trials.
Casting Our Cares and Letting Them Go
We should give our cares to God in such a way that we are making Him responsible for them now instead of ourselves.
God-Focused Prayers Versus Self-Focused Prayers
Is it possible that as we focus so intensely on what we want that we forget to Whom we are praying?
A Second Childhood Dies: Mourning and Weeping over the Loss of Children Connected to Herod’s Massacre
There are many hopes and dreams built into being a parent, and, yet, when we lose a child, these hopes and dreams are suddenly taken away from us.
The Denial of Death and the Paradoxes we must Face
While our secular age may scoff at the prospect of an empty tomb, it will find no cure from the ills that death bring apart from that empty tomb.
Death Should Feed our Eternal Hope in Christ
Our impending deaths should inform and feed our eternal hope in Jesus Christ, and should fuel our gradual release from the cares, concerns, and hopes of this world