Truth Inspires

Is there such a thing? According to wikihow there is. On this site atheists have taken to evangelizing Christians. (See http://m.wikihow.com/Persuade-a-Christian-to-Become-Atheist) Why would an atheist want to convert me to his religion? The answers range from their desire to take God out of the mainstream, to change the way people think, to impress upon society a philosophy that would transform literature and media, to a point that all will realize that our life has no more meaning than a bugs life — to get us thinking in the now because it is hopeless to believe there is an afterlife. But the real reason that underlies the myriads of others they propose, is their unwillingness to submit to authority other than their own. God is our Creator. He gave us this beautiful world we live in. He gives us the very breath we breathe by sustaining the growth of the plants that give off oxygen. He created us to rule over the earth and to subdue it. So God created man in His own image; in ...

On Monday, September 16th all of us were again shocked as another act of evil was perpetrated at the Navy Yard in Washington. Another senseless act--another layer of hardness to many who have become desensitized to the evil around us. My heart goes out to the lives of the families who were affected by this senseless tragedy. Confusion, loneliness, heartaches that do not seem to ever go away, loss of companionship and oneness with a spouse, and even children crying themselves to sleep each night are just some of the by-products of evil. They are the unnecessary results of aimless living. Psychologists will give you a plethora of reasons why something can snap in the brain causing a person to go off into a delirium of evil rampage and many of those reasons are commendable. But if Jehovah is the Lord of the universe and the creator of all things, then surely we would expect that He has an answer as well. And if we take the time to look we will not be left wanting; He calls it Sin. But ...

Jeremiah's Lament 1 How the gold has grown dim, how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street. 2 The precious sons of Zion, worth their weight in fine gold , how they are regarded as earthen pots, the work of a potter’s hands! 3 Even jackals offer the breast; they nurse their young, but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. 4 The tongue of the nursing infant sticks to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the children beg for food, but no one gives to them. Lamentations 4:1-4 (ESV) To some this may seem to be an enigmatic passage. But I assure you, just as Jeremiah the “Weeping Prophet” penned it under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, it is as meaningful today as it was when he first delivered it. Let me interpret: The times: Siege of Jerusalem 587 B.C. The passage cited above reflects upon the aftermath of the Babylonian invasion of Judah and Jerusalem—the exile of its i...