by Brian | May 22, 2020 | Current Events
I’ve been dipping into the book of Isaiah recently, and I want to follow up on last week’s post about fear by walking through an amazing passage from the book of Isaiah, in chapters 8 and 9. This is really just sharing, since the truth is that the Lord has...
by Brian | May 19, 2020 | Culture, Current Events, Spiritual Life
In our current climate of sickness, lock downs, re-openings, and “new normals,” we also have new questions to think through—especially in terms of how we relate to each other now that there are many different opinions about the issues COVID-19 has...
by Brian | May 13, 2020 | Anxiety, Culture, Current Events
Consider the connections between these three proverbs: The lazy man says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be slain in the streets!” (Proverbs 22:13) The lazy man says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion is in the streets! As a door turns...
by Brian | May 7, 2020 | Current Events
Have you seen this? 1 Corinthians 4:12, 1 Peter 3:8-9....
by Brian | May 5, 2020 | Culture, Current Events
Many thoughtful Christians are generating helpful responses to the last month-and-a-half which model different ways Christians might think about what we’ve faced and are facing, from the sickness to the lockdown. For instance, here’s Carl Trueman [emphasis...
by Brian | Apr 15, 2020 | Current Events, Spiritual Life
Why does God make us wait for difficult times to be over? Why does he sometimes delay his solution to the things that are troubling us? I was thinking about this while reading Acts chapter 8 and 9 this morning. Acts 8 describes what must have been a very difficult...