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    That is the usual outcome when I quarrel with God. " These are the waters of Meribah, where the people of Israel quarreled with the LORD, and through them he showed himself holy." (Numbers 20:13 ESV)

  " The unfolding of your words gives light;it imparts understanding to the simple." -Psalm 119:130 (ESV)    Here is how I feel sometimes and was feeling today. That prompted a series of tweets on critical thinking: I've fallen down the rabbit hole into a dystopian "wonderland" of bizarre relativism. Can someone pinch me back…

    "Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened." - Romans 1:21  This indictment is about what we do with what we know. It is an offense to reason not to be thankful to God and…

In that period of time between conception and birth, a man comes to realize the awesome responsibility he has undertaken. If he is wise, he asks many questions, reads books, prays, and thinks more than he has thought for years.

Joseph with his father Jacob and brothers in Egypt from Zubdat-al Tawarikh in the Turkish and Islamic Arts Museum in Istanbul, dedicated to Sultan Murad III in 1583 “And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?” – Genesis 43:27 There comes a time in…

“…If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed…”   – from Matthew 17:20 How much faith do you have? Is your faith great or small? Is it conditional or absolute? Is it fickle or firm? It is not an easy task to measure faith, and Jesus makes it more difficult by holding up something…

We are all oppressed – even if we are oppressors. We each writhe in agony for someone to intervene in our darkness and bring us into the light.

What unknown script is emboldened in the dash between the day of your birth and the day of your death?

Is it conceivable that God would be angry at our prayers? Irritated? Perturbed? Cynical? The psalmist thought so and prayed, “O LORD God of hosts, how long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?” (Psalm 80:4 ESV) READ MORE.

Should a person always answer his or her critics? It is our impulse. We might feel that silence implies vacillation, lack of courage, or unwillingness to engage. Perhaps, sometimes, it does. At other times, it merely indicates a feeling that all has been said and a confidence that one has considered all the arguments and…