God's Character
A Stump And A Treasure In The Field
I saw the Body of Christ plowing with great difficulty in the field of labor. Finally our plow seemed to hit a stump in the field and we couldn’t go any further. With all our efforts and praying this stump…
Love Simply Loves
Thirty years ago, my heavenly Father and yours planted a Seed in my heart that went deep, very deep. Within that Seed was a desire to plant that same Seed into the hearts of people all around the world. Since…
God Doing Dishes?
This came from a vision a fellow traveler passed on to me: “A while back, I was in a prayer meeting, just blissing out on God’s presence, when a vision came – there was the Ancient of Days doing the…
God: How Deep Is His Love?
It is often taught by the traditional church that there must be a Hell because God’s love demands it. According to tradition, humans must be able to chose freely to love God or else it is not true love. God…
Of Suns And The Son
The first half of my life, I could look at such a beautiful sunset and not believe in a God who created it. I did not hear Him, did not see Him, did not feel Him and certainly did not…
Exaggerating God?
“Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can’t contain Him. Isn’t it a comfort to worship a God we cannot…
Does God Overcome Good With Evil?
1. As we are required to love our enemies, may we not safely infer that God loves his enemies? If God loves his enemies, will he punish them more than will be for their good? Would endless punishment be for the good…
Bombs Or Bread?
(This letter, by Tamim Ansary, an Afghan living in the US, was sent out on a discussion list.) Dear Friends, Yesterday I heard a lot of talk about “bombing Afghanistan back to the Stone Age.” Ronn Owens, on KGO Talk…
Will You Tell The World For Me?
John Powell a professor at Loyola University in Chicago writes about a student in his Theology of Faith class named Tommy: Some twelve years ago, I stood watching my university students file into the classroom for our first session in…
SoW1976: The Interplay of Good And Evil
The reality of evil in the world with all of its accompanying miseries and sufferings staggers the mind of most people including Christians. They cannot understand why an all-powerful, loving God, who completely destroyed the works of the Devil through…
#10: Is God Angry Every Day?
“God judgeth the righteous, and GOD is angry with the wicked every day.” (Psalm 7:11, KJV) “God is a righteous judge, and He is NOT angry at all times.” (Psalm 7:11, YLT) Sometimes it pays to really compare Bible translations. Few of…
Short Meditations on The Bible and Peanuts
Those who have been raised on the Peanuts comic strip or watched the holiday specials featuring the Peanuts characters know that Charles M. Schulz, the originator of that comic strip, had a strong spiritual side. Many people do not know…
SoW8: The Purpose of Evil
“I Create Evils I, The Lord.” There is probably no subject in all the range of religious thought so hard to deal with as that of the purpose of evil. Writers on Biblical lore have tried to account for the…
SoW2: We Are God’s Workmanship
A great and important truth is contained in this declaration, and one which practically most Christians deny. Perhaps this statement may seem too strong to some; but I think that I can show that it is correct. Theoretically all Christians…
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