This essay, “Some Thoughts on Healing,” was published in the CGG Weekly on April 16, 2004. “For I am the LORD who heals you.” —Exodus 15:26 Few things are more personal and vital to people than their health. Americans spend multiple billions of dollars each year trying to find cures …
This CGG Weekly essay, “Purify Your Hearts,” was published on July 9, 2021. “You shall not commit adultery.” —Exodus 20:14 To talk about adultery these days is to risk ridicule. Back in 1976, then-presidential candidate Jimmy Carter faced public scorn when—in a Playboy magazine interview no less—he agreed with Jesus’ teaching in Matthew 5:28, …
This essay was first published in the April 9, 2004, CGG Weekly as “Pontius Pilatus.” “And when they had bound Him, they led Him away and delivered Him to Pontius Pilate the governor.” —Matthew 27:2 For the majority of professing Christians, today is Good Friday, which commemorates the death of Jesus for …
This essay appeared in the April 2, 2004, CGG Weekly under the title, “Priceless.” “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” —Romans 5:8 Among the most popular series of advertisements in recent years has been MasterCard’s “Priceless” commercials. …
This essay, originally “Groping for Jesus,” appeared in the March 26, 2004, CGG Weekly. “. . . He asked His disciples, saying to them, ‘Who do men say that I am?’” —Mark 8:27 Jesus has sure been in the public eye lately. With Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ and the …
This CGG Weekly essay, written in the style of C.S. Lewis’ Screwtape Letters, was published on December 5, 2003. Dear Bollix, Just a short note to congratulate you on the wonderful job you are doing overseeing the American religious landscape. When I appointed you to the position of Religious Confounder …
This essay, titled “The Value of Life,” was published in the CGG Weekly on July 2, 2021. “You shall not murder.” —Exodus 20:13 God’s command in Exodus 20:13 and Deuteronomy 5:17, “You shall not murder,” seems to be a universal tenet in every nation’s code of law. Does any culture not have some kind of …
CGG Weekly published this essay as “Expecting More” on November 7, 2003. “. . . till we all come to the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ . …
