CGG Weekly published this essay as “Do We See Our Calling?” on May 31, 2024. For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. —I Corinthians 1:26 We are all aware of what the apostle Paul writes …
In his recent post, “Stop Calling Faithfulness a Sacrifice,” Stephen Kneale offers a counter-argument to a common attitude toward living the Christian life. Jesus tells His disciples in Luke 17:10 that, having obeyed God’s commands, we are still “unprofitable servants. We have done what was our duty to do.” As …
This CGG Weekly essay, “Death Is Not the End (Part Two),” was published on March 19, 2010. “From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third …
I wrote this essay, “Big-Picture Thinking,” for the CGG Weekly on January 5, 2007. “Is it a small thing to you that the God of Israel has separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to Himself . . .?” —Numbers 16:9 As we flip our Gregorian …
As the days have wound down toward the new year, the media have been saturated with news of woe. Many people would say that sorrowful tales have filled the Internet and the airwaves throughout 2016 to such an extent that it has been the absolute worst year in living memory. …
This Random Bible Verse comment began life as a CGG Weekly essay, “What Is Truth?” published originally on October 12, 2012. “What is truth?” —John 18:38 The goings-on in this world constantly are constant reminders why a certain quotation from the late novelist Michael Crichton, author of The Andromeda Strain, Timeline, The Great Train Robbery, State …
