Inspiration Faith & Prayer Health & Wellness Entertainment Love & Family
Newsletters Special Offers

Wait, Has That Always Been There?

I’m hungry. And I have been for about two weeks.  On August 29th, I started yet another diet plan.  But this time, there’s a difference.  I have discovered the absolute, gotta-have-it, can’t-ignore-it ingredient to weight loss.  (Hang with me a bit.  We’ll get there.) (And, no, I’m not selling anything.) For all my adult life,…

[for parts 1 and 2, follow these links: http://blog.beliefnet.com/waithasthatalwaysbeenthere/2011/08/offering-grace-pt-1.html http://blog.beliefnet.com/waithasthatalwaysbeenthere/2011/08/offering-grace-pt-2.html ]   But what about sin?  Doesn’t God get angry about sin?  Oh, yeah.  He does.  He gets as angry as angry can be.  But Steve Camp says it well in a song:  “You face your doom, a sinner in the hands of an angry…

(If you missed part 1, you might want to read it first.  http://blog.beliefnet.com/waithasthatalwaysbeenthere/2011/08/offering-grace-pt-1.html  ) Now, concerning the Prodigal Son parable, the objection may be raised that the father didn’t go out searching for the son.  The father waited for the son to come home, and it was the coming home that was the son’s expression…

I once knew a man whose life embodied great complications and contradictions: He was a preacher who declared the Word of God, strong and true; he was a preacher who failed to learn some of the great lessons of God’s Word for himself. He helped a lot of difficult marriages hold together;  he failed to…

A friend who lives down the street has an odd problem.  He’s getting a huge number of telephone calls recently – – almost all of them wrong numbers, asking for someone else, or just hanging up when his voice message answers. Why has this suddenly become a problem?  His phone number is just one digit…

Psalm 5 – – Proverbs 2:1-8 (it would help to read these before you read further) “Give ear to my words, O Lord.”  This psalm is a passionate plea for God to know my heart’s cry. Why does David believe that God will hear his cry? Because David not only desires to be heard, but…

Psalm 4 – – Romans 8:26-28 – – Proverbs 1:28-33 (you might want to read these before you read further) Interesting prayers here. One the one hand, David calls out to God to answer his pleas; on the other, David acknowledges that God has already done just that, and continues to do so. It’s David’s…

Who needs the church?  Husbands and wives need the church,  Our children need the church. And, OUR WORLD NEEDS THE CHURCH. I remember a record album my parents owned when I was a child. Even though I was only in grade school, the lyrics of a certain song were emotionally moving to me, though I’m…

Who needs the church?  Husbands and wives need the church.  And, OUR CHILDREN NEED THE CHURCH There are a goodly number of verses and passages in the scriptures that are nothing less than heartbreaking.  One of those is found in Nehemiah, chapter 13.  Nehemiah had been instrumental in rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, and in…

[The first of three parts] So, who needs the church anyway?  Does the church still have a place in this world?  Does the church have anything relevant to say to our society, to our culture, to our people?  Oh, sure, WE like it here.  It’s comfortable to be around people you know and like, and…
archives most recent
search this blog
More from Beliefnet and our partners
Close Ad