The Apostle Peter, in his first epistle, writes to the persecuted church, believers suffering for their faith in Jesus Christ at the hands of Roman authorities and the pagan world. Peter acknowledges that suffering and instructs them how to deal with it in a redemptive way. The Apostle Paul, in
Martin Luther King Jr., in his famous “I Have a Dream Speech,” given August 28, 1963, spoke to hundreds of thousands gathered on the Washington Mall. But he actually addressed all Americans and the world. Like William Wilberforce in a previous generation, who called the world to consciousness of the
In the midst of the Covid pandemic, as countries respond with different regulations, it’s hard to know how people and governments should react. Some countries lifted restrictions in areas of low infection rates, and increased them in the cities with high rates of infection. Restrictions include social distancing, wearing face
In the days of the Coronavirus, our lives have been changed suddenly and forever. A few weeks ago, people all over the world were settled in the routines of a new year: children in school, parents at work, Christians gathering on Sundays for worship. But for several weeks, something had
Self-isolated at home during the Coronavirus storm I have plenty of time to ponder what will come of this, one of the most profound events in my lifetime. I find the isolation difficult; I want to see my grandkids and be with my family. It is also a time many
The day before returning to Colombia, we flew to Houston to a hospital renowned for leukemia treatment. They did 40 exams and we had the opportunity to talk with the department director. When the test results began to arrive, this doctor told us that he really did not know what
When we go through traumatic or crisis situations in life, we always wonder if there is a purpose in all that, or why it happens to us. Pain is the greatest vulnerability in human beings. For me, pain is the state that most blurs the image of God and prevents
We rarely hear a theology of suffering today. What we are hearing more often is a theology of comfort. “Come to Christ and you will be blessed!” “Pray and God will give you a new car!” “Give God $10 and He will give you $100 back!” The prosperity gospel is not the true
Compassion didn’t come out of nowhere. It came to the world from God and His incarnate Son. Mercy is not to be found in Christless world. The standards of a fallen humanity include hardness of heart, cruelty, and malice. The Bible, on the other hand, is a treasure of compassion, as
“Compassion” has become one of a growing number of politicized words (like ‘access’ or ‘diversity’) whose meaning has been corrupted beyond redemption. So writes Thomas Sowell the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow at The Hoover Institution of Stanford University. While I would agree with Sowell that the word has
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