Life is not without its burdens. At 27, Margaret is already feeling the effects of carrying hers. Every other day Margaret, a mother of four, makes a 10-hour trek to collect water for her family, carrying a jerrycan on her back that weighs 44 pounds when filled....
Everywhere I go, I interact with a lot of people who do not rest. This is especially true of pastors, church leaders, and workers. This principle comes from one of the Ten Commandments, but it is one of the most ignored. We are horrified by adultery, murder, lying,...
Charles Spurgeon called him "The Iron Prophet!" Ahab, the king of Israel, called him "the troubler of Israel" (1 Kings 18:17). His contemporaries called him things even a great deal less complimentary. His name, Elijah, meant "Yahweh is God," or "Jehovah is God," and...
Stress has become ubiquitous, and if not managed well, it will affect our physical and mental well-being. However, recent studies published in Complementary Therapies in Medicine and Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine shed light on a simple yet effective...
Troubled by the uncertainty you have in your heart as to whether or not, should you stand in the presence of God, you would be greeted with joy or rejection? Vast numbers of people are there! In fact, some groups actually teach that you can’t be sure that you are...
It's a waste of time but do we ever spend a lot of time doing it. A poet once admitted, "I worried a lot." "Will the garden grow, will the rivers flow in the right direction, will the earth turn as it was taught, and if not how shall I correct it?” The poem gives us a...
Why did Jesus come into the world? He declares in John 10:10, “I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.” He also tells us, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to Me and drink. He who believes in Me, as the Scripture has said, out of...
A physician from Antioch, in all probability not a Jew, whom we know as Dr. Luke, wrote more of the New Testament from the standpoint of volume than did the apostle Paul. However, the thirteen letters that Paul wrote form the backbone of what the church has taught...
There are many legitimate desires, such as desires for food, rest, companionship, marriage, a good home, health, strength, and friendship. Even success in life is a legitimate desire. Yet, at times, even these legitimate desires seem to go unfulfilled. David wrote in...
From the beginning of time, people have looked into the heavens, knowing that God was there, wondering what must be done to please Him. Actually, most pagan cultures think that God is angry and that something must be sacrificed—even their children or another person—to...