Posts by Truth and Life

Tomorrow millions of Christians around the world will celebrate Ash Wednesday, February 22, 2023 by having ashes placed on their foreheads in the shape of a cross. In one sense it is a picturesque practice with not much significance to our daily lives. That is until the ash heaps of Dachau, Auschwitz or Bergen-Belsen are…

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…

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.…

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. …

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…

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.…

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…

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,…

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.…