Keep Your Eyes Set
Disease. Crime. Poverty. Corruption. Bloodshed. Prostitution. Drugs. This was the condition of the world when Jesus came to the earth. How did the Lord deal with these problems? He didn’t eradicate sickness. He never promised to lift everyone out of poverty. His...
“We will never forget” — But will we ever learn?
Many of us heard about it before we saw it on television. Once we saw the smoke billowing from the World Trade Center and the footage of the fiery airline crash, the images were imprinted on our memory for the rest of our life. An eery feeling comes over us when we...
Are We That Helpless?
I couldn’t believe what I was hearing. Of course, we say that about a lot of what we hear these days. This time I was in a waiting room where health tips were given on a screen—how to lower blood sugar, getting better sleep and dealing with other common problems. Then...
Two Battlefronts
A Christian friend from a third world country told me, “America is in a war.” That war is inside our land. It is a moral and spiritual conflict. We have been saying this for years, and we sense it now more than ever. To hear someone who was raised in such a different...