Posts by Truth and Life
The Transfiguration
The word transfiguration means metamorphosis. It means a spiritual change like from sorrow to joy. These are not easy times in which we are now living. The times have always been difficult, but I see these times as singularly difficult, which makes the Transfiguration of Jesus all the more meaningful. Jesus very much wanted His…
Read MoreLet Him Love You
We have been made in the image of God with amazing minds, emotions, and imaginations. The problem is that these can work against us with thoughts of always having to measure up to something or someone, including ourselves. Because the God who has made us is a personal God, His love demands nothing of us.…
Read MoreHonest Love
The Scriptures overflow with the promises of God’s unfathomable love. The thirty-first chapter of Jeremiah is just one example. “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” Jeremiah 31:3 This is a love that springs from the depths of God’s being. God promises joy. He will restore us. …
Read MoreThe Final Outcome
We wait for the outcomes of surgeries, elections, games, applications and relationships. But what happens to us after we die? Is an afterlife a philosophical question we toss around in our minds? I have come to believe that the answer to that lies in what we believe love is. The Apostle Paul tells us that…
Read MoreA 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…
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