Forgive, as God Forgives
Years ago a young man quarreled with his father and left home.
He kept in touch with his mother and wanted badly to come home for Christmas, but he was afraid his father would not...
This is Going to Sting a Little
Life has internal stings as well-broken hearts, crushed ambitions, crashed dreams. These usually smart for much longer than the kind nurses inflict. Do you ever wonder, "Why me, Lord? I'm a Christian. I walk...
The Problem Everybody Has but Nobody Talks About
Hans Christian Anderson’s short story “The Emperor’s New Clothes” is about two weavers who promised an emperor new clothes that would be invisible to anyone unfit for his position. They made no clothes at...
What does it mean to be forgiven?
A poet defined forgiveness as “the fragrance a flower gives the foot that crushes it.” Webster has “pardon, acquittal, to cancel, remit, or give up resentment against.”
Forgiveness is found only seven times in the...
The Song of a Soul Set Free (Psalm 32)
Marghanita Laski, a well-known secular humanist, once said, “What I envy most about you Christians is your forgiveness; I have nobody to forgive me.”1
David was one of Scripture’s great saints. He was also one...
The Remedy for Judging
1) Love. Love is always slow to expose, always eager to believe the best, always hopeful, always patient (1 Corinthians 13:7; cf. 1 Peter 4:8). The faults of others will appear thick if our love for...
What Jesus Told Me to Tell You
Just before returning to heaven, Jesus pointed a nail-scarred hand at a world for which He had just died and told His followers to “go.”
The message they were to take was the simple gospel....
