By: Ben Zornes What we commonly call depression is described in scripture a number of ways: downcast (Ps. 43:5, 2 Cor. 7:6), hopelessness (Ecc. 2:20), despair, disquieted (Ps. 42:5), troubled and weighed down (Ps. 38:6). Periods of gloom can arise due to tragedies, trials, or transgressions. If a loved one dies, it is natural to […]
By: Shawn Paterson Simplistic Answers When dealing with the sin and affliction of anxiety, we can be prone to turn great Bible passages into trite and simplistic answers. So you may have a friend struggling with anxiety. And you say, “Well, the Bible says to not be anxious.” And that’s true enough. But then you see […]
I was thinking about the movie Braveheart the other day and specifically about the scene where the armies are lined up against each other getting ready to get to it. All of a sudden it occurred to me that I had always thought of myself as being one of the guys in the front row, […]
This morning I ran across an article by Dr. Bart Ehrman called Inside the Conversion Tactics of the Early Christian Church.” I’m not sure what his point was, or reason for writing, but because Dr. Ehrman is such a popular figure in some circles, and this article is so easy to pick apart, I thought I’d give […]
But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God” (Luke 9:62). Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I […]
“Thus says the Lord God: ‘This is Jerusalem; I have set her in the midst of the nations and the countries all around her. She has rebelled against My judgments by doing wickedness more than the nations, and against My statutes more than the countries that are all around her; for they have refused My judgments, […]
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