Posts from October 2025

The surgeon general ought to require a warning on the banner of news channels. “Warning: Too much of today’s headlines may cause agitation, stress, anxiety, or depression. Some may experience mental and emotional paralysis.” Incessant reports on hurricanes, wars, human trafficking, political races, and spreading diseases are enough to drive us mad. One may wonder if there is any good news? Our world is bent, bruised, and broken by sin (Genesis 3, Romans 8). Both created order and people are…

Adam and Eve lived in Paradise with everything necessary for “life and godliness” (2 Peter 1). They enjoyed the presence, fellowship, boundaries, and worship of the Creator.    “Every tree of the garden” was theirs for food (Genesis 2). God made a covenant with them: “But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day you eat of it you shall surely die.” Don’t eat and live; eat and die. Cut…