Posts from September 2025

East of Eden living was not so good for Adam and Eve. Satan could not deliver on the promise “you will be like gods”. Banished from the beauty and blessings of Paradise, they headed east into a world now cursed by sin. Work, family, relationships, productivity, and religion all were bent and broken. Life was difficult, godless, futile, and ended in death (Genesis 6). In time, godlessness, even murder, would characterize society, leading to God’s judgment by a worldwide catastrophic…

In a Christian high school class with three handfuls of students, all regular church attenders, only one had been in a church service with a creed. Don’t ask why we were on this subject, but I asked, “From where does the Holy Spirit come?” Most ninth graders know other trivia, however, one did blurt out “from the Father and the Son.” When my state of speechlessness ended, I said, “Oh yes, you’re Greek Orthodox.” Regularly reciting the Nicene Creed in…

Bet you’ve not heard the following statements from your Christian friends: “I was having my devotions in 1 Chronicles this morning and am so blessed by the twelve hundred plus names listed in the first nine chapters.” “Our pastor has been preaching a series on Joshua and those names of defeated kings, cities, and territories have really helped my growth in grace. In fact, I have the four hundred place names on sticky-notes on my mirror to help navigate difficult…