The Standing Judicial Commission has published its decision along with concurring and dissenting opinions in a matter referred to it by the 50th General Assembly.
Sports are like every joy in life, intended by God as a foretaste of something much greater. And the greater something is that same God.
The righteous will never be moved; he will be remembered forever. (Psalm 112:6) Elaine Pereira is author of I Will Never Forget, a story about a woman caring for her aging mother through the stages of dementia. The way Pereira describes her mother’s deterioration is not noble or sentimental. The loss of memory creates many…
I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Rom. 8:37-39) The Apostle Paul provides a wonderfully…
I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge — that you may be filled to the measure of all the…
Husbands, in the same way be considerate as you live with your wives, and treat them with respect as the weaker partner and as heirs with you of the gracious gift of life. (1 Pet. 3:7 NIV) The Bible commands wives to respect their husbands and for husbands to treat their wives with respect. The…
Walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, for all endurance and patience with joy. (Col. 1:10-11) Watching those who compete in “ironman” competitions makes me dream of what I might…
My first date with David Guthrie was on New Year’s Eve. And when he left at 3 a.m. on that first day of 1986, I blissfully fell asleep. I knew I had found him, the one. When Valentine’s Day weekend came around a little more than a month later, I didn’t like it that he…
My son, do not despise the Lord’s discipline or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the son in whom he delights. (Prov. 3:11-12) We may create some shock by asserting, “The Lord will never punish his children,” but that is actually the truth. We understand…