Month: August 2021

Do you sometimes feel confused about God?  You wonder where He is or what in the world is He doing?  You wonder why He is letting certain things happen to you or why He isn’t relieving the pain you experiencing.  Please know that God never abandon’s His own, but He does let them experience difficulty as part of the prosses of conforming us to the image of His Son (Romans 8:28-29). While “God’s thoughts are not our thoughts, nor our His ways our ways” (Isaiah 55), He does give us quite a bit of insight into many of the methods …

Our world is filled with poverty.  While we in the Western world know prosperity like never before, the majority of the world’s population struggles with many dying of starvation on a daily basis.  The problems are staggering and more than any of us can handle, if we only look at the whole. If however, we each do what we are able, it can make a huge difference.  The problem is, many don’t.  Also, many big efforts that are made are misguided and once again there is division and controversy on what to do.  Once again, however, the Bible speaks and …

In this continuing look at issues of injustice, we come to questions regarding the LGBTQ community: Should they be a protected class?  What special accommodations should we be giving them?  Do we need to reconsider our traditional views of what it means to be human, to be male or female?  How should Christians be responding to all the cultural upheaval that is coming from this?  Does God give us any answers or insight? This message will seek to address these questions, largely by looking at the underlying beliefs and assumptions that accompany this debate.  It will seek to give some …