Posts by Truth and Life

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…

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…

Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.Psalm 86:11 Returning to a small river that I knew as a youth, I was disappointed to see how much it had changed from the way it had been. I get the same feeling when I see…

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”John 8:32 This verse from John has perhaps been the most misinterpreted verse in the Bible.  Words taken out of context can be used to say just about anything. When a college boasts that its motto is “Veritas vos Liberabit”  (The truth will…

Sovereign power is absolute power. God is that sovereign power revealed to us in the Word of God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.Exodus 20:3 During the first period of the reign of Amaziah, God judged his victory over the Edomites as favorable in His sight. But he did not win that victory…

The story is told about a father and a son.  The father took the son to the stairway that led to the second floor.  He said, “Go up to the third step and jump down, and I will catch you in my arms. After some coaxing the lad jumped and his father caught him. “Now…

Have you ever asked yourself what it is that you truly believe—something that you would stake your life on?  Many believe in some form of determinism; we are the result of our psychological makeup which determines our behavior, or what we are is determined by our interaction with the environment. One can break this down…

Regardless of who we are or think we are,  we have common needs. If we lost our way in a dense forest any of us would probably last for a few weeks on no food and about three days without water. Is there a way in which we could see each other from that perspective…

One of the first things we do when we look at a newborn baby is to try and figure out who he/she looks like. Do you ever wonder how you resemble God?  The Word of God tells us that we were created in God’s image.  When God said, “Now we will make humans, and they…

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.Genesis 1:1 The lines are clearly drawn between those who believe Genesis 1 is true and those who don’t.  But the science which tries to prove Genesis 1 to be false has failed to discover a law that allows something to come from nothing. There is…