Posts by Brent Niedergall
An Offering of Ants
This Labor Day, as we honor labor and recognize the contributions of workers by taking the day off, it’s to our benefit to recognize Solomon’s humble object lesson of hard work: the ant. Whether you’re busy as a bee, eager as a beaver, or poor as a church mouse … could an ant ameliorate us?…
Read MoreWhen It Looks Like God Is Losing
It’s no fun when someone takes something from you that you weren’t looking to get taken. It’s just not a good way to start your day when you walk out to your car in the morning to find a thief has substituted your wheels with cinder blocks. How many ice cream stand owners out there…
Read MoreFortitude for Fathers
One friend facetiously relayed to another, “I just watched a film where a man’s wife is brutally murdered by a serial killer and his son is left physically disabled. In a twisted turn of events, his son is kidnapped and he has to chase the kidnapper thousands of miles with the help of a mentally…
Read MoreGoing Against His Wishes: Remembering R. C. Chapman
Out of the plethora of godly preachers who have already entered into glory, who graces your list of heroes? There are plenty to choose from: Chrysostom, Whitefield, Edwards and Lloyd-Jones, Moody and Morgan, Torrey, Tozer, Spurgeon, and Simeon along with the rest of the great cloud of witnesses. Let me suggest one more worth adding…
Read More“By My Name Jehovah Was I Not Known to Them”
Do you have one of those names that give telemarketers pause? You almost feel bad for the guy who has to cold-call a Mr. Anuszkiewicz or a Mrs. Lefebvre to try and persuade them to upgrade their cable, phone, and internet package. By the same token, there are some people out there who always gets…
Read MoreThe Scope of General Revelation
Combining famous quotations with the power of the Internet is a recipe for satire and confusion. Case in point, nowhere else can you find a picture of Joseph Stalin stating, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” Then there’s Abraham Lincoln alongside the words,…
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