Mankind desires to see into the future to control what is to come, realizing that knowing a future outcome can take the hazard out of decision-making. Organizations which can predict future outcomes are considered visionary and worthy of …
Why is there so little loyalty in sports these days? Or is the lack of loyalty not a sports-related problem but a societal one? Has our culture of competition and each-man-for-himself attitudes spawned a society of disloyal, …
Last night, I viewed a disturbing video called War of Images. The purpose of this French-produced film is to expose Westerners to what the mainstream media have hidden about the Palestinians. The video contains footage of teenage …

(8) But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (9) Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. (10) For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.
God initiates the relationship with us. He makes it possible, paving the way so that we can have fellowship with Him. Through this relationship, which He made possible through the gift of His Son, He desires to develop trust in us. …
In Part One, we saw how corrosive bitterness and resentment can be to our relationships, considering the well-known example of Esau toward his brother, Jacob. Another example of bitterness in the Bible appears in the story of Naomi. After moving from Judah to the land of Moab during a famine with her husband and two sons, she had to deal with at least two significant tragedies. She lost not only her husband, Elimelech, but also both of her adult sons ten years later. After being left with just her two daughters-in-law in a foreign land, she says in Ruth 1:13, “No, my daughters; for it …
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