“People ruin their lives by their own foolishness and then are angry at the Lord.” Proverbs 19:3 New Living Translation It takes unmitigated gall to put God on the defense stand! – we sow seeds of unfaithfulness in a relationship, then shake our fist at God when that relationship fails – we sow seeds […]
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Innocent Before God
I don’t have any friends named Eliphaz, but if I did I’d probably ‘de-friend’ them. Guilt by association. Job had a friend by that name (Job 4) and he turned out to be a finger pointer, a denouncer, a fault finder where none existed. He specialized in criticism cloaked in false concern. […]
Christmas … Not a Grudge
God made Christmas available. Our sins made it necessary. That’s the reality of Christmas that few celebrate. Even Christians don’t really get around to acknowledging the ‘why’ of the Virgin Birth until Good Friday. It’s the dark side of the holidays, if you will. We prefer to wrap ourselves in the lights, the beauty […]