A few days ago I was driving down the road, going about 40 mph, when a car pulled out in front of me. I slowed down but didn’t slam on my breaks. The driver then proceeded to put his entire arm out the window, lifted straight up in the air, then gave me the finger.
I recently read a biography of David Livingstone (1813-1873), the great explorer and missionary to Africa. Although he faced intense challenges—frequent sicknesses, attacked by a lion, sleeping on dirt floors, misunderstood by locals, lack of converts—he was known for his calm and joyful demeanor and his endurance in prayer and mission. After reading about his
In the Bible people sometimes wore on an uncomfortable garment called sackcloth. Some think sackcloth is a burlap-like material—the fabric used for potato sacks—but consider Revelation 6:12: “The sun turned black like sackcloth made of goat hair.” So sackcloth could be made from black goat’s hair while burlap is made from a plant. Like burlap, however, it
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Daniel’s habit of prayer is impressive. When warned not to pray under the threat of being thrown into the lion’s den, he continued his daily habit without interruption. Now when Daniel learned that the decree had been published, he went home to his upstairs room where the windows opened toward Jerusalem. Three times a day
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When I was growing up I never heard anyone claim to be born in the wrong body. But that claim is becoming increasingly common today. How can someone be born in the wrong body? Doesn’t that imply existence before birth? If so, where were they? And how could they have preferred a particular gender before