Do not repay anyone evil for evil. Be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everyone. If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay,” says the Lord. [Romans 12:17-19 NIV]
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“Trust and obey, for there’s no there way To be happy in Jesus But to trust and obey” - J.H Sammis SASB #690
I read the following quote on social media this week:
“Why do babies laugh when their fathers launch them into the air? Because they know the same hands that launched them are there to catch them. That is trust.”
I ...
On Tanna Island in the nation of Vanuatu in Melanesia the worshippers of the cult of John Frum hold parades. They paint military insignia on their arms. They carve coconuts to resemble radios and headphones. They build life-size replicas of airplanes out of straw. They cut military-style landing strips out of the jungle. They build wooden control ...
Mark Twain famously wrote, “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes”, and because history is the record of human nature sometimes those rhymes extend over many thousands of years.
See if the following description of world events ring a bell.
The leader of a large and powerful nation sends his armies south to encircle and ...
I was recently asked to be the guest speaker on the subject of evangelism at a retreat.
As part of my presentation I used a video clip that I thought illustrated my point well. But to my surprise some of the women in the group were visibly upset because the pastor who appeared in the clip had recently been exposed as a hypocrite and abuser ...
“ O my many sins the Lord has cast behind his back, Remembered now no more, Remembered now no more. O my many sins the Lord has cast behind his back, Remembered now no more.
As the East is from the West so are they far from me, They are far from me, They are far from me. As the East is from the West so are they far from me, Remembered now ...
“Consider how the wild flowers grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you, not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these.“ Luke 12:27 NIV
It would appear that the law of unintended consequences has not been repealed.
It is ironic so many of the inventions of our present age which promised more time for leisure ...