It is amazing to me how many of God’s people have been imprisoned. The apostle Paul was persecuted, beaten, imprisoned, and left for a couple of years awaiting trial. Joseph was trapped in a prison while falsely accused with no appeal and forgotten by the one person who might be able to help him. We …
A WORD OF RESTORATION IN A TIME OF DISCIPLINE
What shatters our sense of self-identity? What others do to us, what we do to others, and finally what we do to ourselves can distort God’s image in our lives. Sin creates failure, loss, rejection and abandonment which causes us to wonder not only who we are, but also where God is in the equation. …
NAVIGATING THROUGH THE TROUBLE WATERS OF FAMILY CONFLICT
Dave Johnson, a San Jose police officer, relates the following dreaded call of a family disturbance in his book, ‘The Light Behind the Star.’ I could see a couple standing in the front yard of the home. A woman was crying and yelling at the man, who was standing with his hands in the pockets …
GOD’S RESPONSE TO OUR MOST PAINFUL MOMENTS!
Times of crisis, disappointments, rejection, and various other sorrows invade our lives. They can cause us to ask the question; ‘If God is so loving and good, why this loss, this pain, and struggle in my life? The atheist will answer cynically that it is because there is no God. But the Christmas story is …
WHEN I GROW UP, I WANT TO BE…
Victor Frankl endured a Nazi concentration camp in the Second World War. In his book Man’s Search for Meaning, he writes about a fellow prisoner who had lost hope. This man shared a dream in which a voice told him that he could wish for something and it would be answered. He related to Frankl, …
A LIVING HOPE: IN TROUBLING TIMES
Author, Ann Kiemel, in her book, ‘It’s Incredible,’ tells the story of Mary, a fictitious name to protect her identity regarding the power of forgiveness in a person’s life. “Mary understands when people ask her about forgiveness. She first married when she was seventeen years old. It seemed so perfect, so right…but while she was …
SERVING GOD AND COUNTRY!
People from around the world are watching with deep interest what will happen on November 03, 2020 during the U.S. federal election. Our exposure, as Canadians, to the U.S. primarily comes through the various American outlets that are so accessible to us, and have deeply influenced our own culture in subtle and not so subtle …
Freedom in Forgiveness
Author Max Lucado retells the story of human tragedy. “Rebecca Thompson fell twice from the Fremont Canyon Bridge. She died both times. The first fall broke her heart; the second broke her neck. She was only eighteen years of age when she and her eleven-year-old sister were abducted by a pair of hoodlums near a …