The Condition of a Hard Heart

One symptom of “sklerocardia,” that is, the condition of having a “hard heart,” is unwillingness to be grateful for the gift of life and its various blessings. Such inner hardness desensitizes the soul, making us feel numb inside… People...

As In The Days Of Noah

Disregarding truth cheapens and impairs a sense of self, causing disintegration of spiritual life and depersonalization of others. As humanity becomes more and more fractured and stupefied, God’s “like for like” judgment will result in “giving them over” (paradidomi)...

What Truly Brings Freedom

Our postmodern culture today is wicked and lawless, afflicted with the cowardice that comes from having a bad conscience. In that sense it is decidedly unfree and enslaved to its own self-destructive impulses. Tragically, many people today interpret...

Speaking Through Tragedy

Dr. Charles Stanley Numbers 21:4-9 Although we never like to admit it, God will at times use hardships, such as tragedy, to shake us out of self-centeredness and other misguided attitudes. Unexpected hardship is often accompanied by a season of intense clarity. The...

God Knows Our Sorrows

The LORD said, “I have surely seen the affliction of my people who are in Egypt and have heard their cry… I know their sorrows” (Exod. 3:7). The grammar here is intense: “seeing I have seen” (רָאה רָאִיתִי). Understand, then, that God...

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