What would it be like to be an olive grower in biblical times who contracts the horrible, wasting disease of leprosy? After confirmation of the symptoms from the high priest, we become isolated from our family and the community. We …
Christians should have a great interest in the subject of idolatry because of its major importance to morality and our relationship with God. We ought to be constantly refining our understanding of it so we can avoid allowing anything to …
Every so often, I get a mild case of depression. Maybe it is just dejection. It is certainly not anything so serious as despair. I just get down and mildly pessimistic when I look at the world and all the shenanigans, perversions, and …

(8) "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. (9) Six days you shall labor and do all your work, (10) but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the LORD your God. In it you shall do no work: you, nor your son, nor your daughter, nor your male servant, nor your female servant, nor your cattle, nor your stranger who is within your gates. (11) For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.
We live in a grubby, grasping, material world. Every day challenges us with its built-in bias toward material things. With human nature ever-present within us, it is not hard to overlook spiritual things in the pressured rush to …
In the church, we are very blessed. We are surrounded by complete families, consisting of fathers, mothers, and numerous children. But that is not the case for most of the world around us. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2022-2023 roughly 30% of American families with children under 18 are single-parent families. Single mothers parent 80% of these, which means a quarter of U.S. families are fatherless. Such a condition has effects: Seven in ten juveniles in state institutions come from single-parent homes, and the impact lasts all the way through adulthood. According to 2024 crime …
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