People will sometimes react to the same event in totally different ways. When Covid numbers began to improve in New York, someone suggested that the people should thank God. The governor replied, “We did this. There is no reason to thank God.” It is hard for some to understand why Christians praise God. And we may do his cause harm
It is common to want lots of friends and few, if any, enemies. Will Rogers claimed to have “never met a man he didn’t like.” Many seem to seek this as an ideal. Dale Carnegie made a fortune teaching others “how to win friends and influence people.” We feel uncomfortable with the idea that we may, in fact have enemies.
Let us start with an update regarding the registration of the church. We mentioned that last month, and many of you promised to pray. Please keep praying. The Good News The good news is that Samson Shandu was able to submit some documents that, we hope, will allow the church to be recognised by the government. He submitted them some
If he is our God, it will show in our actions. Seek If he is our God, we will seek him. “O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water. So I have looked upon you in
In Proverbs 12:5 the Bible says that, “The plans of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.” Therefore, it is good to be able to decipher between the advice of the righteous and that of the wicked. But unfortunately, the voice of the wicked is not always easily recognizable. The Devil, the enemy, will help
In the Book of Job there is a progression of Job’s understanding of man’s relationship with God. Job remains faithful, even after losing his wealth, his children and his health. Yet, at first, he is confused, being overwhelmed by sadness and despair. His three friends offer little comfort because they believe personal suffering is a consequence of personal sin. Bildad
Often when we meet people for the first time we know nothing of their lives before our meeting. We may learn later, or much later, about their lives before we met them. This is also true about many people we meet in Scripture. We meet Melchizedek, for example, in Genesis 14. About 1,100 years later we learn more about him
This article is part of a series in this month’s issue and assumes that the earlier articles have been read. It would be good to first familiarize yourself with the discussion to this point in the book. After the introduction in chapters one and two, God is silent. It is not until chapter 38 that he weighs in on the
In this series, we have been taking an indepth look at one of the most foundational elements of our faith – the nature of grace. We began by establishing that the grace of God is where salvation begins. Sinners cannot undo a single sin nor is sin outweighed by righteous deeds. Redemption from sin is a gift that God is
This psalm has a single, simple theme — trust in God. That theme is developed mainly in a positive direction. The writer gives us several reasons for trusting in God. But there is also a bit of a negative side to it, a reminder of why we should not trust in two sources of confidence that we might be tempted
Let us modify an old saying. We often hear it said, “Anything worth doing is worth doing well.” Yes, but is it not also true that “Anything worth saying is worth saying well.” One of the things we gain from regular feeding on scripture, and especially the Psalms, is a richer vocabulary for expressing our thoughts about God and our
In a way there is not much to say about this psalm. Further information about the terms and expression, the possible historical contexts and the alternate translations will not be very enlightening. The psalm is what it is, an expression of disappointment. But, although the standard means of studying a passage yield little when applied here, there is an important
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