Death Sentence It began with a strife in Eden. Husband against wife. Wife against husband. Satan against God. Satan against humanity. Humanity, in its infancy, united against God. Fear. Distrust. Lies. Loss. All tragic and immediate effects of giving in to the devil’s deception that makes one think less of God and more of oneself. Is there more to
Quarantine These are crazy times. With COVID-19 growing from a local outbreak to a regional epidemic to a global pandemic in a matter of a couple of months, our lives as we know them have been turned upside down. During the last few weeks, many procedures have been implemented worldwide that some of us may never have thought we
Day Four: The Gadal Factor Mark 9:35-37 When the disciples couldn’t bring themselves to answer Jesus’ “What were you talking about?” question, He sat them down for a chat. “If anyone desires to be first, he shall be last of all and servant of all” (vs. 35) He said. Wait. Did He just say that? Desiring to be first automatically places
Supreme love for God and unselfish love for one another—this is the best gift our heavenly Father can bestow. This love is not an impulse, but a divine principle. Only in the heart where Jesus reigns is it found. “We love, because He first loved us.” Love modifies the character, governs the impulses and passions, and ennobles the affections. This l
We must cultivate our garden. – Voltaire For decades, church leaders have been attempting to unravel the complex reasons why young people leave church. In recent years, the task to understand why the church fails to retain millennials or reach emerging, post-church culture has also amplified. And now, new reports are indicating that unlike o
Teach me, O God… to breathe deeply in faith.—Soren Kierkegaard Imagine a scenario with me. You are an allied lieutenant during World War II. Your platoon is part of an assault on France aimed at liberating the country from its German occupiers. As the raid begins, you find yourself with a small company of stranded paratroopers. Radio checks indicat
We are not beings born totally depraved. We are beings in need of healing. - Jordan Sutton In the 2017 sci-fi thriller “Life”, a space crew fights to survive an alien creature that is both hostile and seemingly impossible to destroy. As the film reaches its climax, however, there the viewer can discern a rising tension between nihilism and h
I want to leave, to go somewhere where I should be really in my place, where I would fit in… but my place is nowhere; I am unwanted. – Jean Paul Sartre In his debate with Ken Ham, American television presenter Bill Nye opened his remarks saying, “Here tonight we’re going to have two stories. And we can compare Mr. Ham’s story to the story fr
If there’s a God, why’d he make me? All of these flaws is all that I see. –Illenium & Call Me Karizma The ontological self-abandonment of God reveals that God is far from the self-interested being many religionists have made him out to be. Instead, God is other-centered. And yet, this very revelation drives us toward an ethereal riddle that tra
If God is Trinity and Jesus is the face of God, then it is indeed a benevolent universe. God is not someone to be afraid of, but is the very Ground of Being and is inherently, objectively, and concretely on our side. - Richard Rohr In the last few articles, we went on a tour through the doctrine of God, approaching it from the angle of postu
