Posts Tagged ‘Current Affairs’
The Unexpected Road
An unexpected crisis, a frustrating detour, or a messy stumbling-block, can send us into a tailspin. Things like pandemics really play havoc with our 21st Century sensibilities. Our autonomous lifestyle rebels and shouts that this should not be happening to us. The present Coronavirus intrusion bedevils the pop philosophy that tells us we should live…
Read MoreWhat will be left when the dust settles?
At the outset of the present quarantine, everything was bizarre, electric, and controversial. People filled their time arguing over lethality, R₀ rates, and balancing lives with dollars. But the shock, the novelty and the drama are wearing off now. What about when quarantine just turns into a long, dull wait? Managing terror is one thing.…
Read MoreSteward Your Stimulus Check Wisely.
Many Americans received their stimulus checks last week.1 If you haven’t received yours yet, it will be arriving soon. What will you do with this money? Invest in the stock market? Finish that home remodel project? Buy a nicer TV? As Christians, we understand that everything we have belongs to God, including our money (1…
Read MoreGlory vs. Shame
How long, O you sons of men, will you turn my glory to shame? How long will you love worthlessness and seek falsehood? Selah. (Psalm 4:2) Have you ever heard of “The Teabag Principle?” Here’s how it works: When you are in hot water, the “real you” will come out! Your troubles always show you…
Read MoreIt’s Time for Revival
When we consider the state of our world — full of fear, frustration, overreaching government, faithlessness, clamoring media, vicious politics, neighbors set against neighbors, restrictions, job losses, illness, and deaths — would you say we might come away a little defeated? Many things in the news every day get us down. That was true even…
Read MoreA Good Medicine
Have you heard of any good medicines? Some recent advertisements have touted treatments that are supposed to be good for you. But after you hear the long list of bad side effects, you begin to wonder if the cure is worse than the condition! So it is with many medicines. But there is a medicine,…
Read MoreAbortionist admits he’s limited to ‘no set period’ in unearthed video | News | LifeSite
April 24, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Abortion defenders routinely insist that late-term abortions are unheard of for anything but the most heart-rending medical emergencies, but a notorious late-term abortionist admits otherwise in a recently-unearthed video. This week, the group Abortion on Trial published a video of an October 2019 deposition given by New Mexico abortionist Curtis…
Read MoreGive Us This Day Our Non-Perishables
My wife Emily just got back from the grocery store this morning. Considering the Coronavirus pandemic, we weren’t sure what to expect. We prayed with our two little girls before mommy left for the store, “Give us this day our daily bread.” Then she returned with an embarrassment of rations. Don’t get me wrong—we need…
Read MoreContradictory Prayer
In 1987 a toddler from Texas named Jessica McClure somehow fell into a narrow abandoned well. She ended up wedged in place 22 feet down with her foot up against her head. The drama of “Baby Jessica” dragged on for two days as rescue workers labored to save her. Television crews spread to story to…
Read MoreCan’t Be Our Maker – Must Be Math
The caskets are piling up in the potter’s field on Hart Island, New York. Typically, about 25 people a week are interred there. These are people with no known connections, or next of kin. But during this pandemic, the number of people buried there is nearly 5 times that high.1 This is in New York…
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