What, Me Worry?
(February 1998 – Volume 4, Issue 2) In Jay Adams’ little booklet What to Do About Worry, he begins with this humorous tale: Joe used to worry all the time about everything, in fact, his friends knew him as a worrier. One day Bill was walking down the street when he saw his worrying friend bouncing […]
Trusting God
(February 1996 – Volume 2, Issue 4) Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God’s eternal plan, and He brings or allows only that which is for His glory and our good to come into our lives. Trusting God can often be a difficult thing even for the child of God. However, the most difficult time […]
The Sovereignty of God – Part 3
(November 2001 – Volume 7, Issue 10) Few words from Scripture both encourage and challenge us more than James 1:2, Count it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials. When God inspired James to pen these immortal words could He possibly have known that a crazed sect of Islamic fanatics would one day slam […]
The Sovereignty of God – Part 2
(October 2001 – Volume 7, Issue 9) One of the hardest things I have ever done was to walk away for the last time from the house in which I had been raised. My parents had both passed away and it was no longer feasible for my siblings and I to keep the homestead, so we […]
The Sovereignty of God – Part 1
(September 2001 – Volume 7, Issue 8) “All of life runs unsettlingly close to the ditch,” Joseph Stowell assures us in The Upside of Down (p. 17). But that does not mean we like such a life, much less, understand it. Even while we consistently and constantly remind our children that life isn’t fair, down deep […]
The Purpose-Driven Life: An Evaluation – Part 2
In my last paper I evaluated Rick Warren’s book, The Purpose-Driven Life, focusing almost entirely on his use, or rather misuse, of Scripture. Far too often Warren plays fast and loose with the Word of God, and he does so in rather innovative ways that are going undetected by many. Let’s continue to examine some […]
The Purpose-Driven Life: An Evaluation – Part 1
(October 2003 – Volume 9, Issue 10) In our last paper I identified three relatively recent areas of concern in relationship to the Scriptures. First, there are the new hermeneutical approaches that either emphasize the subjective over the objective interpretation of Scripture, or allow for preunderstanding to be brought to the Word. The result is that […]
The Lord Told Me – I Think!
(September 2005 – Volume 11, Issue 9) In a newsletter published by a conservative Baptist denomination, a story is presented concerning one of its members. Deployed in Iraq , this middle aged soldier revealed that often, as he wrestles with problems of various types, “God just reveals the answer to me.” A leader from his church […]
The Law and the Christian – Part 2
(June/July 1998 – Volume 4, Issue 6) If you are like me, occasionally you are unable to fall asleep. When I lose sleep it is usually because my mind is in gear over some matter of concern. It might be family or financial issues, church problems, burdens for people, or deadlines I am facing. I have […]
The Law and the Christian – Part 1
(May 1998 – Volume 4, Issue 5) A Tale From Long Ago Once upon a time, in a remote and strange country, lived a young couple. From all outward appearances theirs was a happy marriage. The husband, whose name was Nomos (or Law), was good and righteous — and even holy (Romans 7:12). While his demands […]