Dear First Baptist Church,
Yesterday, January 22, marked the 50th Anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion in the United States. By the grace of God, that legal statute was overturned in June of last year. Despite this legal reversal, the struggle to defend the...
Friendship relates to persons and the exchanges that exist between those persons. Friendship exists in the exchanges that people make with one another. To have a personal relationship with God requires a personal exchange.
The first observation I have is this: shepherds must be rather important from God’s view of things, or else He wouldn’t have wasted His time promising them to us. Therefore, it is very important that you find a man to be your shepherd. God says so! Having a shepherd is critical to God’s eternal...
Christians should embrace this worldview. A Christian should exude his status as a child of God the same way that a Cherokee exudes his First Nation heritage. We are a people of a common ancestry – all of us trace our heritage to the Cross. And we should be equally suspicious and reluctant to...