I’ve recently read a book called The Parrot’s Lament and Other True Tales of Animal Intrigue, Intelligence, and Ingenuity. It is full of intriguing anecdotes of Orangutan escapes, Orca orneriness, and big cats (but no octopus stories, in case you wanted to know). The author, Eugene Linden, is careful to explain how the stories cannot… Read More Just How God Made Us
Not long after Oliver Cromwell died, England invited the late King Charles’ son, also Charles, to come reign over them. Throughout the land people rejoiced to throw off the rule of the Puritans. Rules do not change the heart or impart convictions, and matters were made worse by men who only wore the outward austerity… Read More In the Wake of Cromwell
Of all the verses in Psalm 139, these are the hardest. What about loving your enemies? How can this be? The closest answer I can come up with is this. Loving your enemies assumes having enemies. Who are my enemies? Those who hate the LORD, who are His enemies. All humanity is either on the… Read More Psalm 139:21-22
This world is full of wickedness and injustice. Not only is there violence and wrong against us, making our hearts cry out, but many oppose God Himself. How many see right and wrong, and willfully choose what God opposes? How many speak evil against God and His word? How many slander His Son, Jesus Christ,… Read More Psalm 139:19-20
The heart of man is fertile ground For every evil ever found: Injustice, greed, And every breed Of lust and hate in there is bound. God cannot call the sinner just. To tell a lie would break all trust: No judge to rule Oppressors cruel, No vengeance for those crushed to dust. But though all… Read More Tolerance of God
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