Posts by Truth and Life
A New Year’s Resolution
Most New Year’s resolutions are about breaking a bad habit. Sin is like a bad habit from which you cannot free yourself. It’s the guilt and shame of the sin, the sin of past mistakes, some very foolish, others unwise and still others go on to destroy life. This is called the sting of death.…
Read MoreIn Just Three Days
What a difference three days can make. Two men who had been eye-witnesses to the crucifixion of Jesus were now heading home when they were joined by this one who out of nowhere started walking with them. “So what have you two gentlemen been talking about?” Stopped in their tracks by his question, Cleopas turns…
Read MoreTruly, Truly
Feel the anguish in these words Jesus often spoke. ‘Truly, truly, I say to you.” Jesus said this to let the world know that He was sent by God because there is no lasting truth in this world. Thus any attempt on our part to declare truth by announcement is a deception. Truth, by…
Read MoreTo Know His Love
If I say “I am a Christian,” what proof do I have to show the world that I am? Francis Schaeffer was answering that question as the 20th century came to a close. Because of the divisiveness, the world being at odds over ideologies, languages, nationalities, ages and colors, plus the Christian church’s own divisiveness,…
Read MoreOne Faith
There are no distant lands anymore; we are just one world. The story of the Tower of Babel in the Word of God is a lesson in mankind’s prideful pursuit of its own natural and gradual control of this world. Global is not a new term; it was there in the mind of King Nebuchadnezzar.…
Read MoreThe Supremacy of God
Daily God is doing new things in new ways to answer the needs we must now face in these new times. But the all-encompassing truth is that throughout these changing times God does not change. He remains supreme and His supremacy is made known to us through His Word. God’s Goodness Never Changes Give thanks…
Read MoreA New Life
Every morning we wake up to the same person we were when we went to sleep. And too many of us are unsatisfied with the person that we are. As a result we end up becoming victims of our own dissatisfaction. Victimhood As a result of our natural natures we become victims of our own…
Read MoreThe Right to Life
We are losing trust in each other, we’re less dependable, and we lie and cheat a lot more. “As we become more cynical or pessimistic, we end up feeling that we are living in a Hobbesian world.” These are strong words from Robert L. Leahy, a Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry…
Read MoreGod’s Sovereign Power
Thou shalt have no other gods before me.Exodus 20:3 This is God’s disclosure of Himself. He has the sovereign power to give and to take. For example, during the first period of the reign of Amaziah, God judged Amaziah’s victory over the Edomites as favorable in His sight. But Amaziah did not win that victory…
Read MoreTrue Love
Love can be whimsical like the wind; it can come and go. But if there were no such thing as true love, we would exist forever in fear of each other. But because there is true love, there is a place where there is no will to power and all fear of each other is…
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