Is It Ok To Be Disappointed With God?
March 15, 2023
When the British expositor and teacher, Joseph Parker, saw the suffering his wife endured as she lay dying with cancer, he was perplexed. Yes, he prayed and cried out to the Lord, but day by day, her suffering increased, and finally she lay still. When she died, for a week Parker, according to his own testimony, wallowed in the dark despair of atheism. He said that if he had had a dog who suffered as did the one he loved, he would have put the animal out of its misery.
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"Jesus is Lord" says the words of the song, but what do you really mean when you say those words? It is certain that believers of the first century had some understanding of those words and their implication, for the Roman Emperor Domitian proclaimed himself a god and demanded that the subjects of the empire recognize him as such. It was really a pledge of political loyalty, but believers in Christ saw far more in that act of commitment than a pledge of allegiance to an emperor. All that was necessary would be to go to the temple and offer a pinch of incense saying, "Kaisar estin Kurios," which means "Caesar is Lord." Then they could go anywhere and worship as they pleased. Believers, however, refused to say that Caesar was Lord, for they believed that there was only one Lord for them--Jesus Christ.
March 14, 2023
"He is Lord, He is Lord," sings the church. "He is risen from the grave and He is Lord." Yet while they are singing, a man edges forward on his seat thinking, "Wish they would hurry up and get this thing over so I can watch the big game." Like the phrases, "the Trinity" and "The Rapture of the Church," the phrase, "The Lordship of Christ" does not appear in the pages of the New Testament, yet the concept of Christ as being Lord of the believer's life is on every page of Bible.
March 13, 2023
Abdul Rahman was on death row with little prospect of avoiding execution. The case against him was air-tight. He confessed his crime; one allegedly committed some 16 years before. There was a public outcry as well to execute the bearded, sad-faced man for what he had done. Thousands of people rallied in the streets demanding that he be executed. And what was the crime that he had committed?
March 10, 2023
Everything in life is relative! What seems to be a major catastrophe to some is a mere bump in the road to others. Some suffer in silence, never letting others know the pain or heartache they are enduring, while others broadcast the slightest wrong they have suffered.
March 9, 2023
Living in a broken world creates a kind of spiritual skepticism in our lives, especially when we see human failure mirrored in the lives of those whom we have put on pedestals thinking of them as a cut above the ordinary. Then when they fail you, you ask, "Is there anyone who really lives the life, instead of simply of using the language and saying the right things?"
March 8, 2023
So, you think you have problems, do you? Consider the plight of a woman who held a rummage sale to get rid of her junk and put some money in her purse at the same time.
March 7, 2023
My daughter asked me if I had heard of a certain theologian who was better known in the 70s than today. "Yes," I told her, "he has one of the most brilliant minds of any evangelical alive today. But he is very eccentric, quirky, and never seems to stay in any one place very long."
March 6, 2023
It's a well-established fact: how you get along with your mate can either keep you healthy or kill you, and I'm not suggesting that your mate kill you. It's how you get along with each other that can drive your blood pressure over the top, producing hypertension, and, yes, eventually a heart attack. A three-year study done by the University of Toronto Medical School tracked 103 couples, each one of whom had one party who had hypertension. And what did they find at the end of the study? They divided couples into the "happily married" group or the "not-so-happily-married" group who argued and fought a lot. At the end of the three-year study, those who were happily married were spending more time with each other and were healthier, while those who were not so blessed had seen their blood pressure go up by an average of six points and were spending less time together.
March 3, 2023
"I'm just not adequate to do the job!” If you have never thought that, you are probably the exception because almost everyone at times looks at the height of the mountain to be climbed or the depth of the chasm that has to be crossed and says, “Not me! I'm just not up to it.”
March 2, 2023
When you have heart pains, you should go to a cardiologist. The word comes from two Greek words cardia and logia. The first word is translated, "heart"; the second means the study of something. Hence, a cardiologist is one who has studied the heart, a heart-doctor.
March 1, 2023
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