We live in a self-indulgent age. Advertisers tell us to pamper ourselves and get all that we can as soon as we can. Politicians promise high-cost “freebies” that only a few years ago required years of hard work and sacrifice to procure. Many people think nothing of going thousands of …
This Random Bible Verse comment was excerpted from “How Jesus Reacts to Sin,” an essay I wrote for the CGG Weekly on October 25, 2013. “And Jesus said to her, ‘Neither do I condemn you; go and sin no more.’” —John 8:11 Consider that this woman caught in adultery is indeed …
I published this Random Bible Verse on March 31, 2014. It is the last of the “old” RBVs. From here on out, they will have to be new. And they brought the sacred pillars out of the temple of Baal and burned them. —II Kings 10:26 The burning of the sacred …
Here is a CGG Weekly essay of mine that was published just today. New stuff! How novel! This world is a horrible place. The planet on which we live along with more than seven billion other human begins is an evil, scary, terrible place. The facts are clear and obvious.
This Random Bible Verse made its first appearance on June 1, 2013. “Righteousness guards him whose way is blameless, But wickedness overthrows the sinner.” —Proverbs 13:6 This verse seems like a fairly straightforward statement of a truth repeated in various ways dozens, if not hundreds, of times throughout the book …
I published this Random Bible Verse on March 9, 2013. “How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? For scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge.” —Proverbs 1:22 These are the first lines of the cry of Wisdom addressing those “in the open squares,” “in the chief …
I wrote this Random Bible Verse comment the day after the Newtown, Connecticut, shooting, December 15, 2012. “And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.” —Matthew 24:12 That this verse “randomly” came up in the random verse generator seems none too coincidental today. Yesterday saw the …
