Three of my favorite books from 2022, plus I'm giving one of them away!
Update, 1/25/23: Congrats to Thomas from Spain on winning the book giveaway!
Three of my favorite books from 2022, plus I'm giving one of them away!
Update, 1/25/23: Congrats to Thomas from Spain on winning the book giveaway!
A preview of October's email-only article.
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Pedro Vergara |
TURNING TO JESUS means you'll be happy and prosperous the rest of your life, right?
Therefore, if you're unhappy or less than wealthy, it probably means you don't have enough faith.
You see where one can run into trouble with this line of thinking.
I've written it in numerous places, but once more for effect: bad things do happen to decent people all the time. The fall ushered in an era where entropy reigns supreme (for a time) so that even were sin not present, the pure randomness of lightning or gravity would still cause pain and suffering.
Cast out of God's Edenic hedge, we no longer enjoy protections from the negative aspects of thermodynamics. In short, there's no escaping the heat death of the universe sans the intervention of the Almighty. Adam made humanity's bed, now we must lie in it.
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Focusing on things that last.
A preview of September's email-only article.
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Bernard Tuck |
Wisdom is a great thing, but as Job's friend, Bildad, found out, relying on even the wisest of humans can get you into trouble.
Just who were these influences of Bildad, and why did he trust them wholeheartedly?
No matter how old or wise Bildad and his friends were, their lives were but a breath compared to the ancients who lived hundreds of years. And during those centuries, these people would have acquired great wisdom as a faculty of experience.Nevertheless I'm inclined to believe Bildad did not misappropriate ancient wisdom, but rather that the sages of old failed him in this case. Who, no matter how long he lived, could account for a case like Job's? Bildad thought he knew the answer—that Job had sinned—but he was wrong in spite of consulting the wisest of men. And therein lies a critical lesson we should take to heart. The wisest of humans is a fool compared to God.
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You can be right and still be wrong.
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Nina Strehl |
A preview of August's email-only article.
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Philipp Pilz |
It would be kind of obvious to say sin is harmful, wouldn't it?
Nevertheless, I think sin has a consequence we often don't recognize until it's too late.
YOU KNOW SIN IS BAD; nothing revelatory there.God is the definition of good, and sin is the antithesis of God. Therefore sin is decidedly ungood. In fact, transgressions separate us from God which leads to death because God is also life.Surely you know all of this.But wrongdoing is even worse than we probably realize. Not only do we suffer the immediate consequences of a broken relationship with God, we also experience the compound effect of evil.Proverbs 13:21 warns of this phenomenon.
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