Category Archives: evil
The Parable of the Good Mormon
25 Then an expert on the law stood up to test Jesus, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to get life forever?” 26 Jesus said, ”What is written in the law? What do you read there?” 27 The man answered, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, all your strength, and all your mind.” Also, [...]
Painchange: Transforming Life’s Trials
“He comforts us every time we have trouble, so when others have trouble, we can comfort them with the same comfort God gives us.” -2 Cor. 1:4, NCV “We are alive, but for Jesus we are always in danger of death so that the life of Jesus can be seen in our bodies that die.” [...]
The Light Side, the Dark and Amazing Grace
“To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God’s grace means.” ― Brennan Manning Perhaps there are a few things we need to more fully grasp. There is a real and definite, “life of grace.” [...]
Cleansing the Wounds
“The human heart is the most deceitful of all things, and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?” Jeremiah 17:9, NLT We are the wounded. What exactly has caused it isn’t always known. A death, divorce, depression and disability. Some of us are chronically ill, others are mentally ill. We struggle to hold [...]
Snakes Alive!
6 So the Lord sent them poisonous snakes; they bit the people, and many of the Israelites died.7 The people came to Moses and said, “We sinned when we grumbled at you and the Lord. Pray that the Lord will take away these snakes.” So Moses prayed for the people. 8 The Lord said to Moses, “Make a bronze snake, and put it on [...]
The Evil of Twisting Scripture
“It came about when she pressed him daily with her words and urged him, that his soul was annoyed to death.” Judges 16:16, NASB This has become a savage and vicious verse for me. I used it to alienate a dear sister in the Lord. Vicki was a dear one who ran our office. She had [...]
A Cosmetic Evil
“For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh, but divinely powerful for the destruction of fortresses.” 2 Corinthians 10:3-4 “It’s time to put on the warpaint.” I remember hearing the president of my Bible school say as he spoke to the girls in a class. His folksy comment broke us all up, as we [...]
The Man of the Tombs
I’d like to share with you what I’m thinking this morning. I hope you will persevere and go through it. I identify with the “Man of the Tombs” so much. I am sometimes asked about mental illness and demon possession, but I can give no real light. All I know is that both are real and similar to [...]
Absorbing the Evil
I have danced on the edge of theology for years. I appreciate it so much and yet I am confused by a whole lot, and then sometimes just plain disappointed. I do on rare occasion cross the line and wander into “The Twilight Zone”. People who know me well start to get concerned. It is not [...]