I received a message recently from a Facebook friend who asked this: “Cathy, you had a post awhile back regarding a young man, I think, with addiction problems that had died and how God sometimes calls people home, releasing them from their misery – does that...
The Unanswerables in Life 6/9/19 CBByrd Jill Carattini’s devotionals at Ravi Zacharias International MInistries challenge me. Today she writes about unanswerable questions. I chuckled as I read, “more than a few of my plaguing inquiries were probably the...
One of the issues we revisit regularly in recovery and discipling is the matter of suffering- why it is present, how we face it, consecrating it to God for His redemptive work through it, etc. Recently, I was struck with the fact that, in the New Jerusalem, the...
June 9, 2017 From Seedbed.com J.D. Walt John 16:25-30 The Most Under-recognized Promise of Jesus Why do bad things happen to good people? Why do good things happen to good people? The first problem with the question is the false premise that we are actually...
I am part of a 365 Bible Challenge study group. We were finishing up the Job section recently. Among the group’s members there was a conversation by one who had felt persecuted by some individuals in her workplace. She was asked in the group why she felt that...
Lift High the Cross of Sin and Shame We Bear I had a long ride today to deliver a Titus 2 student’s children back to their grandparents. On the way over the kids and she and I talked about “nicknames” we’d had and how they came to be, as well...
