How God turns a French atheist into a Christian theologian
Fear Not, Unto You Is Born
Introduction: We live in a world filled with fear. Everywhere we turn we hear things like, “Don’t do (say) that, you might get hurt.” “Do (say) this, or you will be hurt.” “Be this or that so that things will be better, or okay, or not bad.” How could most of the laws, rules and […]
The Doors
by Lisa Leidenfrost Worry, it seems like just a natural part of us that can’t be helped, or can it? Why do we worry and what is going on? Why don’t we just trust the Lord automatically when the possibility of something hard looms on the horizon? I think it would help to know what […]
Suffering Is a Relational Matter
Does anyone care about me? Am I alone? Does anyone love/respect me? Where is God? If Jesus died for you, and he did, then he cares for and about you. If you are in Christ and he is in you, and you are and he is, then you are not alone. If God so loved […]
Gracious is the Lord
Lisa is a counselor here with the Center for Biblical Counseling. She is married to Csaba Leidenfrost who for the past 25 years has been a translator for Wycliff Bible Translators and the Bakwe people, in the Ivory Coast. For the past several years Csaba and Lisa have been stranded here in the states because […]
Suffering Through Grief
Grief is the word we use referring to the variety of emotions we feel when dealing with loss. There are generally three kinds of events that can cause grief: The first is when someone close to us dies; the second is when we lose anything at all; the third is when we don’t receive something we […]
Guaranteed Failure
“Heaping oppression upon oppression, and deceit upon deceit, they refuse to know me, declares the LORD” (Jer. 9:6)
The foundation of New Beginnings
Thus says the LORD: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches, but let him who boasts boast in this, that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD who practices steadfast love, justice, […]
God Reveals himself
This is [John] Bunyan’s message [in Pilgrim’s Progress]about his experience of the Christian life: that god reveals himself to his people as much in times of temptations in times of peace , and that both will lead them nearer to the glory Which is unchanging” (Owen C. Watkins in Puritan Papers Volume One 1956-1957, ed. […]