Posts from July 2024
SOUND WORDS, JULY 28TH, 2024
SOME BENEFITS OF SUFFERING There is no problem in life more universal, more common, and more unique than that of suffering. It is the common malady of mankind; if we live long enough, we will experience some type or degree of suffering. It is not my purpose in this article to discuss the source or origin of suffering. While it is a baffling question, many good articles and tracts have been written to explain this problem and they can be…
SOUND WORDS, JULY 21ST, 2O24
JUSTICE AND JUDGMENT He has told you, O man, what is good;and what does the Lord require of youbut to do justice, and to love kindness,and to walk humbly with your God? (Micah 6:8) Justice and judgment are closely related. In fact, in the New Testament, the word for judgment is often the same word for justice. The idea is also closely associated with righteousness. In the Old Testament, “justice and righteousness” are often seen together. True justice will always…
SOUND WORDS, JULY 14TH, 2024
CHANCE OR PROVIDENCE? There are some things we clearly know from Scriptures because God has chosen to reveal them to us. We know exactly what God would have us to do to be saved because He has clearly told us through His word. We know that God hates divorce, a proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood and many other sins that we might commit against each other (Malachi 2:16; Proverbs 6:16-19). But when it comes to knowing…
SOUND WORDS, JULY 7, 2024
AIN’T ANYTHING MEANER THAN KILLIN’ BABIES In Marc Connelly’s wonderful 1930 play, The Green Pastures — wherein heaven is viewed through the eyes of African-Americans in the Deep South — there’s a telling scene involving Pharaoh and a court official identified as the head magician. Pharaoh’s order to drown the male Hebrew children has been carried out, but his hatred for the Hebrews hasn’t abated, and he’s still trying to come up with something to make the Israelites’ existence more…