“He will judge the world in righteousness; he will govern the peoples with justice.” (Psalms 9:8) A capsized cruise ship this week on the Yangtze River in China caught my attention. Over 400 people lost their lives. Sometimes, you just want to ask God, “Why?” It also reminded me of the 1972 movie, “The Poseidon Adventure,” starring Gene Hackman, who screamed at God in anger and frustration. Do you remember the movie? There was a remake in 2006, but no one can match the performance Hackman gave in […]

“Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20) We live in a world of moral relativism. That simply means “a world that does not believe in absolute truths”. What’s the difference? Moral relativism believes that man alone can determine what is true and untrue. In other words, man can determine what is right or wrong. As Ernest Hemingway said, “What is moral is what you feel […]

“I will open my mouth in parables. I will utter what has been hidden since the foundation of the world.” (Matthew 13:35) I enjoy parables. They are great teaching tools and were used by Jesus to convey spiritual truths that are often difficult to grasp. In Jesus’ case, he would use an everyday situation that happens in life to communicate how he felt we should live our lives, respond to life situations, etc. Jesus liked them so much that about forty of them, over a third of the […]

“But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” (Acts 1:8) I have been rather surprised by what I heard about the circumstances involving the death of Freddie Gray. To have handcuffed a man and placed leg restraints on him, put him in the back of a van, and not restrain him was as inhumane of an act as I have seen. […]