The Complete Gospel What is the gospel? What does it have to do with salvation? What must I do to be saved anyway? One popular belief is that even though Christian denominations have differences regarding their beliefs in God and salvation, they are working toward the same goal by sharing a common belief in Jesus […]
Salvation Last week, I had a doctor’s appointment at 11:00 a.m. I knew from driving the same road the previous day that it took one hour and seven minutes to get to the hospital. So, being the consummate procrastinator, I got in the car at 9:53 a.m. and started driving. The road was pretty clear and […]
Living a Life That Is True What do you live for? We all desire something better or want to achieve something great in life. For some people, getting rich is their goal. Some want to be famous. Others look for the ideal job and exert all their energy to move up the ladder. Some people […]
Contentment At some point or another in our lives, most of us hit a threshold. After a while of going to sleep at night, waking up in the morning, going to work, coming home, and going to sleep at night again, a question hits us. Is this it? Is this all that life is? Is […]
Love Love is perhaps the one thing people seek after and prize above all else—above even money, fame, or success. Mother Teresa once said, “There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” Benjamin Disraeli, a British author and politician, once wrote, “We are all born for love. It is […]
Comfort Have you ever felt a pain in the pit of your soul that just won’t go away? He felt it, too. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not. (Isa […]
Hope I used to volunteer at a local hospital. I started out in the pediatrics floor and gradually moved up to the third floor in continuing care. Seeing young and old men and women suffer in their illnesses often reminded me how fragile life is. Over the four-and-a-half years that I worked at the hospital, […]
Joy The Prodigal Son Among the many parables Jesus told, the parable of the prodigal son is perhaps the most deeply-felt of them all. And who is the prodigal son? We encounter him as he is far from home, destitute and broken, wandering in a heartless world. It turns out that some time ago, he had left his […]
Peace “How will I support my family if I am laid off from work?” “Will I have enough money to retire?” “It’s not safe to travel anymore because of the terrorist threats.” “I can’t imagine losing my loved one to cancer.” You don’t ask for much. All you want is to have enough to live […]
Find a Life in Jesus What does it mean to find a life in Jesus? We all have life. We breathe, we eat, and at the end of the day, we sleep. But what does it mean to truly live? Jesus says He came so that we could “have life, and that [we] may have […]