Why Do Christians Suffer?

Scripture Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God ~2 Corinthians 1:3-4, NIV Quote Christ died to…

Don’t Take The Shortcut

Scripture When Pharaoh let the people go away, God did not lead them through the country of the Philistines. This was a short way for them to go, but God did not lead them that way. God said, ‘If the people have to fight a war, they may change their minds. Then they may return…

Health And Wealth Gospel

Scripture “If any of you wants to be my follower, you must turn from your selfish ways, take up your cross, and follow me.” ~Mark 8:34, CSB Quote This false gospel {Health and Wealth} is cruel. It doesn’t intend to be but it is: it means to magnify grace but it does the opposite. ~J.I.…

The Great Reversal

Scripture  If you unintentionally touch anything of human origin that is unclean, whatever it may be, you are guilty as soon as you realize what you have done. ~Leviticus 5:3, GNB Quote The miracle of Christ were not an interruption of the natural order, but the restoration of the natural order. ~Jurgen Moltmann In the…

Reality 101

Scripture  But Job replied, “You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong. ~Job 2:10, NLT Quote “We can ignore pleasure, but pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures,…

The Mystery of Suffering

Scripture Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head, and he fell to the ground and worshiped. And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked I shall return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be the name of Yahweh.” Through all this Job did not sin, nor…

Can God Weep?

Scripture “Daughters of Jerusalem, don’t weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children. For the days are coming when they will say, ‘Fortunate indeed are the women who are childless, the wombs that have not borne a child and the breasts that have never nursed.’ ~Luke 23:28-29, NLT Quote The true believer will…

The Faithfulness Of God

Scripture God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. ~1 Corinthians 1:9, LSB Quote Nothing can frustrate God’s plan. Nothing can make Him renege on a promise, and nothing can make Him change His purpose. ~Martyn Lloyd Jones God is faithful {1 Cor.1:9,10:13, 2 Cor.1:18} but…

Injustice!

Scripture  As they went out, they talked it over and agreed, “This man hasn’t done anything to deserve death or imprisonment.” ~Acts 26:31, NLT Quote How little they know of Christianity who think that the story ends with conversion. ~C.S. Lewis I am about to finish the book of Acts in the LSB and once…

The God Of All Comfort

Scripture All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort. He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. ~2 Corinthians 1:3-4, NLT Quote God knows what it is like to suffer: His Son suffered on the cross for…