By True faith is very comprehensive. In James chapter 5, true faith proves how it will make a difference in both our habitual daily acts like spending money, working, or paying wages, and true faith will make a difference in how we prepare for eternity. True faith changes our perspective on
You, Your Trials, and Your Bible
Trials never seem right when we experience them. And yet the believers who have gone before us by 2000 years were encouraged by words like “Count it all joy when you meet trials” (James 1:2). In more recent years a Christian woman, after the loss of a child, contemplated the
When suffering, pray for righteousness
Many of the Psalms are crafted in the crucible of extreme trial. This is no less true of Psalm 5. But Psalm 5 is not only a prayer of pouring out one’s soul to the Lord. Neither is Psalm 5 merely a prayer of seeking deliverance and vindication. Psalm 5
Don’t waste your worry
The Bible is the long-time expert on the entire spectrum of human feelings, thoughts, and actions which we go through when things don’t go perfectly according to plan. There are hundreds of references in the Bible to men and women just like you and me whose hearts were weighed down
Why did Job keep worshipping God?
To answer the question of why Job kept worshipping God, it might help dividing Job’s expressions of worship into three periods of his life. The first period is Job’s worship of God before the Satanic attacks on his faith began. We do not know how Job came to salvation other