HAVING A PROPHETIC VIEW Why are there so many suicides especially among young people today? What would be so horrible that a person would actually take their own life? What problem would be so unsolvable that a young person could not see that things do get better with time and that we just have to hang in there until we see light at the end of the tunnel? I think that we can live through many horrible things if there is a greater context in which we live. The bad thing we are going through right now is not the end of the world. It is not the sum total of our lives or our purposes in this life… if we have a greater context… a greater purpose than mere existence. I think that young peopl...
GOD SEES In Job chapter one, we see that the sons of God came to present themselves to the Lord and Satan came in among them. We notice right off that while Satan seems big and formidable on earth, he seems very small in the presence of God, and while God knows everything, he more or less pretends not to know where Satan has come from. It’s like God is saying, “Oh yeah, that’s right, you are that guy that hijacked that tiny little planet on the outskirts of nowhere.” We can also notice here that God did not greet him as” Lucifer, son of the morning.” He lost that title in the fall. He is now known as Satan (The Adversary) the one blemish in God’s otherwise perfect creation. Nevertheles...
THE BAHAMAS The Bahamas are bracing for unimaginable news. This Hurricane has been unprecedented in its fury and destruction. There are 70,000 people in need of food and shelter and there are 6,600 persons still missing. When you look at the endless piles of rubble and the flooding and such it is easy to see why they haven’t found many of the victims yet. In the summer’s heat it is going to be a gruesome task to gather up and identify the bodies… and how does one begin when the entire infrastructure of a place including businesses and homes and churches and utility companies and police and fire and construction crews are all in the same boat? I have friends that live there, or used to. Where are they now? ...
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