* Fear

Jerry Sittser from his book the Will of God as a Way of Life wrote: ~Certain powers in the world should make us all shudder.~ . . . the future is not predictable. No one can know with certainty what will happen next week or next year, to say nothing about the next...

Jesus Christ: The Caregiver of Our Soul

Elder Ulisses Soares of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles said in general conference April 2021: My dear brothers and sisters, on this radiant Easter morning my heart rejoices upon remembering the most marvelous, the most majestic, the most immeasurable act that has...

* What Can Put It All Right

From the previous post, Timothy Keller’s thoughts on ‘The Consequences of Sin’ . . . . The devastating loss of shalom through sin is described in Genesis 3. We are told that as soon as we determine to serve ourselves instead of God—as soon as we abandoned living...

* The Cosmic Consequences of Sin

Continuing from a previous post, teachings of Timothy Keller * The Social Consequences of Sin. . . . The Bible speaks even more comprehensively (and more mysteriously) about the effects of sin than we have indicated so far. The first and second chapters of Genesis...

Obedience II

From a previous post Obedience, From the book “All Things New” by Fiona and Terryl Givens: . . .  The implications of Elihu’s rhetorical questions are astonishing, disconcerting, and, initially, beyond our ability to absorb. He is deconstructing any idea we (or Job...

Obedience

From the book “All Things New” by Fiona and Terryl Givens: In the new framework of the Restoration, how do we understand obedience? We can begin with a paradigm-bursting question that has lain scripturally embedded and seemingly unnoticed for centuries—waiting...

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