13 For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, we witness the downfall of the Puritan minister, Arthur Dimmesdale. What makes this so satisfying to many readers is the minister’s affiliation with the moralist Christians….

See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand. There have been scholars that have asserted that we can have no idea what the original biblical writers wrote. They could not be more wrong. I am heartened by the fact that the original of Galatians most likely was still around when the earliest known copy…

Only let each person lead the life that the Lord has assigned to him, and to which God has called him I recently saw an article in which a businessman said that chasing your dreams is a terrible plan that leads to disillusionment and resentment. At first it seemed like a slap in the face. Our fairy tales end in…

Remember, O LORD, what has befallen us;        look, and see our disgrace!              2       Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,        our homes to foreigners.              3       We have become orphans, fatherless;        our mothers are like widows.  As children, I am sure we all remember stretching the limits with Mom and Dad until they finally…

              Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD,        who stand by night in the house of the LORD!              2       Lift up your hands to the holy place        and bless the LORD!                3       May the LORD bless you from Zion,        he who made heaven and earth!  “Brevity is the soul of…

In these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God. 13 And when day came, he called his disciples and chose from them twelve, whom he named apostles In Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Blink, he presents the argument that snap decisions are often as good or better than deliberated and thought…