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Mature Faith Is Not Judgmental Two award-winning television shows with similar formats have been running for decades. Civil litigants can bring their cases to The People’s Court or Judge Judy to be settled. The judges ask penetrating questions, demand evidence, and render verdicts that cannot be appealed. These television shows are popular...

Mature Faith Understands God’s Justice In his commentary on James, Douglas J. Moo explained that today’s verses condemn a sinful use of wealth. “We cannot avoid the serious reminder about money and possessions that we confront in this text. One of the sins for which God condemns these people is their selfish accumulation of money and things...

Patience: Two Examples With God’s permission, Satan destroyed Job’s wealth, killed his children, and attacked his health. Job ended up on a garbage heap scratching painful sores. Yet, “In all this, Job did not sin by charging God with wrongdoing” (Job 1:22). To his wife’s despair, he responded, “Shall we accept good from God, and not trouble?”...

Patience: A Key Command As many scholars have noticed, the epistle of James is deeply influenced by the teachings of Jesus during His earthly ministry, often alluding to His words and addressing similar issues. The Moody Bible Commentary points out 24 parallels between James and the Sermon on the Mount. Today’s verse brings to mind Jesus’...

Why are the words of Paul considered Scripture, and does he contradict the words of Jesus? Question and Answer The 13 epistles written by the apostle Paul most certainly are Scripture, breathed out from God through the human author without error. The apostle Peter recognized Paul's writing at Scripture within one of his own letters: "Our...

Building on the Past Many new leaders of organizations desire to strike out on their own in order to make their own mark and propagate their ideas and vision. Few coming to the helm of an organization want to maintain the status quo or merely rehash the past glory of their institutions. And indeed, they are often hired with the hopes that...

Building on the Past In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll indicates that Alice’s understanding of her world has matured beyond those around her by increasing her physical size, depicting her as uncontainable by her environs. In the last scenes of Alice’s dream, Carroll says, “[Alice] had grown so large in the last few minutes...

Restored to Rule God’s Way Why do churches and denominations fracture and divide? While each situation has its own particular reasons, the fundamental reason underlying every division of the people of God is that we live in a fallen world filled with imperfect, broken people. Almost every schism follows a long, painful process that obscures...

Averting Wrath, Avoiding Evil Mike Hodge spent years raising and training lions at the Marakele Predator Center in South Africa. Without warning, he was attacked last May by a lion named Shamba that he had bottle-fed as a cub. Shamba dragged Hodge into the bush, but miraculously he survived with a few broken bones and lacerations. The attack...

Victory: Covenant and Obedience Few people expected the Philadelphia Eagles to win Super Bowl LII. The returning champion New England Patriots were five-time Super Bowl winners and a modern dynasty under perennial Pro Bowl quarterback Tom Brady. The two teams led the league with the same regular season record, but the Eagles lost their quarterback...