Religion teaches us how to live while facing the profound question of death. One might feel it is pessimistic and unpleasant to ponder death, as many would rather avoid thinking about human frailty and pain. Yet to live without confronting death is to deceive oneself and is not in the true sense “living.” Today let […]
According to chapter three of the epistle to the Philippians, the apostle Paul left behind all valuable things, including his status, education, and even his previous religion, because he came to know Christ. He said, “Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for […]
Christ is not a mere historical figure of two thousand years ago. Nor is He simply the Messiah who is to come again in the last days. He is the spiritual personality who dwells among us even now as the Holy Spirit; He lives with us, rejoices with us, and is concerned about us as […]
For the LORD’s portion is His people; Jacob is His own allotment. He found him in a desert land And in the waste of a howling wilderness; He encircled him, watched over him, Guarded him as the apple of His eye. As an eagle stirs up its nest, Hovers over its young, Spreads out its wings, takes […]
But when John saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Therefore bear fruits worthy of repentance, and do not think to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I say to […]