Pop quiz: The New Testament notes a few people who died in church. Do you remember who they were? And the cause of death? Well, there’s Annanias and Saphira, the good, upstanding church couple who sold their property in their zeal for the church. Unfortunately, greed got in the way. They promised the entire amount […]
Category Archives: Prosperity
Is there anything more disgustingly and blatantly [dare I say, grossly] hypocritical than a televangelist? Seriously. How much good are these guys really doing [for anybody other than themselves]? They’ve given Christ a bad name ever since the PTL scandals of the eighties and nineties. You can just flip onto those channels at a random […]
Examine yourselves to see whether you be of the faith - 2 Corinthians 13:5 KJV There is this tendency amongst believers to judge a person’s spiritual condition by their physical circumstances. For example, we tend to assume that a man who enjoys a general state of happiness must be in God’s favor. Some of us […]
My baby seemed the tiniest of them all, weighing only 1 lb 11 1/2 ounces at birth. I stared at him for an eternity, trying to comprehend how he could be that small and still be alive. Trying to figure out what had happened and how I should react. Should I feel joy or despair? Fear […]