I’ve always found great encouragement and direction from God’s pronouncement to Abraham in Genesis 2:2-3, “ I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.” It has compelled me to consider how God has blessed me so that I can bless others. I’m sure that most of us have found that we are …
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If you had asked me a few years ago if I ever saw myself working in a church, I would have chuckled! After a great 30-year career at NYU I imagined my next move would be related to college coaching or something of the like. After retiring I took some time off to focus on family and to travel. My …
How do you think of your faith in relationship to other Christians? Truth is, most people don’t much. Our society conditions us to think of faith as personal and private, our own spirituality. It’s certainly personally meaningful and spiritual, but private? That’s not the biblical perspective. God saves us into a relationship with him and into a spiritual family in …
This past year, I have taken a special interest in what the Bible has to say about anxiety. It is one of those things that seems to fuel all sorts of fires (at least in my life). Anxiety can paralyze me, telling me to obsess over myself and what people think of me. It makes me proud of all the …
“Love is a lovely grace; ‘Love thinks no evil.’ (I Cor. xiii. 5). It puts the best interpretation upon another’s words. Love is a well-wisher, and it is rare to speak ill of him we wish well to. Love is that which cements Christians together; it is the healer of division, and the hinderer of slander.” — Thomas Watson, English …