Keep The Faith

I was awed (I know, not a word) today by something my wife told me. Her mother, my mother-in-law, broke her left ankle in an auto accident about three weeks ago. Yesterday they took off the splints and put on the cast. The surgeon who worked on her mom’s ankle explained to my wife and her mother how the bones in our body have polarities similar to magnets. When a bone breaks, the polarities at the break shift so now there is an attraction instead of what would normally be a repelling motion. This shift lasts for about three months and then the polarities shift back to normal. Since the discovery of this phenomena, they have found a way to prolong that shift before shifting back to normal. This stretches out the healing process which is sometimes needed for older people or people who need that extra time.   When I think about how God has put together our bodies, it awes me (I wished I could find better words but I just cannot find any words good enough to describe my th...

God gave us, humans, through Moses, the laws. I believe that this is God saying to us, “OK, you want to control your own lives, without ME, so then follow these laws. Remember, there are consequences for disobeying them. If you don’t follow these laws and you don’t take care of disobedience, you will never have peace.” And so, we have no peace because something inside us (our sin nature) makes it hard to keep the laws God gave us.   God, in His infinite wisdom and His great compassion, became a human in the person of Jesus or Yeshua, as the Jews call Him. He obeyed all those laws that He Himself gave us to obey, the ones we cannot. He became that spotless (without sin) lamb who the Jews used to sacrifice during Passover. He took our punishment upon Himself and was put to death in our place. The amazing thing was, He didn’t stay in the grave; only God can accomplish such a thing. On the third day after he was crucified, He came out of the grave, alive. Many people witnessed ...

Why So Many Religions? Intro: We live in a world filled with countless beliefs, traditions, and faiths. Many people wonder why so many religions exist if there is only one God. This reflection explores that question by looking at creation, humanity, and the way God reveals Himself to us. Seeing God Through What We Can Understand Have you ever wondered why we have so many faiths or religions? I have. There is only one God who created all things—seen and unseen. Yet Scripture speaks of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as though there are three. Maybe this is simply the only way our human minds can begin to understand Him. God brings His knowledge down to a level we can grasp. Look at His Creation Have you looked closely at His creation lately? I mean really looked—beyond the surface. Take a moment to ponder just one thing He made: a tree, a flower, a butterfly, a cloud, an animal. Pretty amazing, isn’t it? Now pull your mind back from that one thing an...