Truth For The Heart
During that turbulent year of campus riots in 1970, on July 16, I became a Christian. Just over a month later I went to a camp with other college students from the Southeast for three weeks (in case you’re wondering, this wasn’t one of the many cults of that day), and for the first time […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 24: Wednesday “Save me, O God, For the waters have threatened my life. I have sunk in deep mire, and there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and a flood overflows me. I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; My eyes fail […]
Read MoreFriday’s Bible reading is Lamentations. This short book of only five chapters is a poetic lament over the destruction of the city of Jerusalem and the consequences of God’s devastating judgment on Judah. The words are touchingly beautiful in their melancholy and grief as Judah’s sin and God’s judgment are described.
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 23: Wednesday “Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, The God who is our salvation. Selah. God is to us a God of deliverances; And to GOD the Lord belong escapes from death.” Psalm 68:19–20 Wednesday’s Bible reading is Psalms 66–68. These three psalms are all […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 22: Wednesday “O You who hear prayer, To You all men come.” Psalm 65:2 Wednesday’s Bible reading is Psalms 63–65. _________ Isaiah 42 Photograph: ChristianPhotos.net – Free High Resolution Photos for Christian Publications Original content: Copyright ©2011 Iwana Carpenter
Read MoreA cliché often heard by Christians who are in the midst of tragedy is God is in control. This platitude sounds spiritual because, of course, it is true, but what Christian doesn’t believe God is in control? As I have been friends with Christian women over the years, listened to them, wept with them and […]
Read MoreRead the Bible in 2011 ◊ Week 21: Wednesday O give us help against the adversary, For deliverance by man is in vain. Through God we shall do valiantly, And it is He who will tread down our adversaries. Psalm 60:11–12 – All three psalms in Wednesday’s Bible reading of Psalms 60–62, are psalms of […]
Read MoreWhile doing some reading on Job this weekend, I found this by Francis Andersen: “But God did not suspend each individual in isolation, to find fulfillment solely in communion with himself. God put each man with family and friends and things, with property and work. Only a false piety, a disdain for things as evil […]
Read MoreHappy Mother’s Day to those of you who are mothers! May God comfort those of you who have lost children. May He strengthen those of you who have children in turmoil. May those of you without children be blessed by those you have mothered in their time of need. And for those of you who […]
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Kindling for Candles 