I wrote this essay, “This Life of Sacrifice,” for CGG Weekly on April 15, 2016. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” —John 3:16 We live in a self-indulgent age. Advertisers tell …
This piece, “Witness and Warning to the Powerful,” first appeared as a CGG Weekly essay on February 7, 2014. “. . . he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear My name before Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel.” —Acts 9:15 The Bible contains an interesting phenomenon, one …
This essay, “Sacred Cows,” appeared in the November 24, 2006, issue of CGG Weekly. “The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.” —Proverbs 15:14 Even though we live in a world deluged by knowledge—after all, our day is known as the …
This essay was first published in the CGG Weekly as “A Pattern of Persecution” on February 1, 2019. “But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now.” —Galatians 4:29 Wise Solomon comments in Ecclesiastes …
“So Abraham said to the oldest servant of his house, who ruled over all that he had, ‘Please, put your hand under my thigh, . . .’” —Genesis 24:2 In America and other places in the Western world, oath-takers raise their right hands and pledge to perform certain actions, sometimes …
I wrote this Random Bible Verse comment on July 13, 2013. The wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand. —Proverbs 12:7 This proverb stands at the end of a short section, beginning in verse 5, illustrating the progression of the sinful person …
I wrote this at the end of June 2014, and since it has a story built into it, I will republish it here. It is a good example of using a story to make a spiritual point. Two curly-haired children stood in front of their father as he knelt down …
