Unto the woman He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee. (Genesis 3:16 KJV) When most conservative evangelicals read the above
My life is a listening, [God’s] is a speaking. My salvation is to hear and respond. For this, my life must be silent. Hence my silence is my salvation. (Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude) When I was in high school my class took the Armed
It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. (Lamentations 3:22-23 KJV) The old hymn, Great Is Thy Faithfulness, which is sung in many Protestant, Pentecostal and independent churches,
Salvation is arguably the greatest gift God can bestow on a person. It is the testimony of many Christians that nothing in the world can ever compare to accepting and proclaiming the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sin. Many of
… put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thessalonians 5:8-9) A critic of Whosoever wrote to me recently
Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. (Hebrews 11:1) I’ve decided God has one wicked sense of humor. It seems no matter what topic I pick for an upcoming issue, it turns out to be the biggest
And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God? But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive. (Genesis
First Congregational United Church of Christ, Tucson, Ariz. This is how much God loved the world: [God] gave [God’s] Son, [God’s] one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole