Sin and the sovereignty of God.

Allow me for a moment to attempt to stave off the impending stampede.
I mean the stampede of professing Christians, falling all over themselves to excuse God from today’s awful slaughter on the campus of Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia.
No doubt all of you have heard about the thirty-three victims who were gunned down today. [...]

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Judging the judges.

Recently, as our High School group has been going through the book of Judges, one particular thing keeps jumping out at me: man those guys had problems! Seriously, most of these people just could not get it straight. Samson, probably the best known judge, pretty much did nothing right.
I was discussing this over dinner the [...]

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Majoring on the Minors: Pt.1

“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, and with fasting, weeping and mourning; and rend your heart and not your garments.” Now return to the Lord your God for He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving-kindness and relenting of evil.”
-Joel 2:12-13
Rend your heart and not [...]

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