Christ, the scapegoat, bearing our curse is well illustrated by a story I read in the book What It Will Take to Change the World by S. D. Gordon. The following is my paraphrase of this story about a couple who discovered that their 14-year-old son had lied to them....
"Have you rejected Judah completely? Do you despise Zion? Why have you afflicted us so that we cannot be healed? We hoped for peace but no good has come, for a time of healing but there is only terror." - Jeremiah 14:19Mother Teresa is Albanian by birth; her original...
Our two year old daughter, Emily, had a health problem that we had hoped would resolve itself as she grew. It had not and the doctor wanted to do an invasive test on her to find the cause and hopefully fix the problem. The day of the procedure I took her in, dressed...
HTML clipboard Dayton Jones swayed in indecision as he studied the real estate office. The place looked nice enough-a tasteful black-and-white striped awning covered the wide picture window, and the bright red door beckoned amid a sea of faded storefronts. Through the...
It wasn’t a horrible day. Believe me, I know all about horrible days. I’ve HAD horrible days. And this wasn’t one of them. Not by a long shot.But it was a Monday, and that’s usually horrible enough.To start things off, I got up late. Don’t you hate that feeling?...
Eric Barker, a missionary from Great Britain, spent over fifty years in Portugal preaching the Gospel, often under adverse conditions. At the beginning of World War II, the situation in Europe became so difficult that he was advised to send his wife and six children...
"Be shepherds of God's flock that is under your care, serving as overseers--not because you must, but because you are willing, as God wants you to be; not greedy for money, but eager to serve;" - 1 Peter 5:2While serving with Operation Mobilization in India in 1967,...