The world is real and a place God created for us. We need food and shelter – and a lot more. God uses circumstances to grow us again and again. Let’s look at circumstances and God’s love. My 16 year old daughter recently inspired me to memorize this verse. Romans 5:3-5 Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance character; and character hope. And hope does not put us to …
God made each of us with different personalities and different families to make a fun and useful world as we cooperate. Men and women and emotions is yet another issue of how God made us different. Men can block off their emotions in crisis and be great. Women can keep emotions open and can comfort in ways that men often cannot. In the post modern age, many women are learning to be tough and succeed in a man’s world. Men …
Jeremiah lived a hard life. The Babylonians were the mortal enemy of Israel. They ultimately ended the kingdom of Judah, destroyed the Temple and gates and sent them all into exile. God gave Jeremiah the job to tell the people to surrender to the Babylonians. So, the people from top to bottom hated him. God had him live as a traitor to his own people. He began as a normal prophet telling the people to repent or God swill destroy …
The Bible has 66 books written over 1400 years by mostly Jewish men. It has many genres of literature from history to poetry . It says many many things. Thus, the risks exist that we can make the Bible say what we want. I would like to add that we all do it. It is never good as we are making God instead of finding him and letting him change us. Any time we go to the Bible seeking to …
