“No, God does not do evil. God is good. But he does direct events here on earth and allows sinful man a lot of freedom to prove his utter hopelessness apart from the Almighty. And sometimes that gets pretty ugly.”
Month: October 2017
Gone From My Sight
Gone From My Sight I am standing upon the seashore. A ship, at my side,spreads her white sails to the moving breeze and startsfor the blue ocean. She is an object of beauty and strength.I stand and watch her until, at length, she hangs like a speckof white cloud just where the sea and sky …
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C. S. Lewis Grief Quote #1 from ‘A Grief Observed’
There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.
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The Altar: Reflections on Psalm 84
I quietly went to our bedroom, closing the door behind me. And by the bedside, I prayed and calmly lay my son on the altar. I did not like doing it. I cannot say my heart was in it. But I did it. I was not a cheerful giver, but neither did I give him …
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Why Religion Doesn’t Help
We must remember, it's not about us or our religion. It's about God. And not only does God know what He is doing with the universe He created, God wins in the end. Life and Love have already triumphed over death and sin, or where is our hope?
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Time. The Enemy?
Unlike people, time can be depended on. Nothing can stop it. Time passes. Time is temporary. Time is an earth-space, creation-bound phenomenon. It is stretched out and slowed for man’s benefit, so that all may come to repentance. Time loses in the end because at the close of every day I am one day closer …
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God Hears Our Prayers
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him. 1 John 5:14-15 Every prayer I have ever uttered …
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Why the Grieving Should Go to Church-Even When It Hurts
Unbelievers, new believers, and the angels themselves need to see us worship God during the tough times, not as a testimony of our "strength", but as a testimony of God’s goodness and majesty.
You Can Trust Him 