Family’s Are Born for… Fighting?

Proverbs 17:17  “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.”

This verse is the oddest verse in Proverbs 17.  It just doesn’t seem to fit the rest of the context.  Before and after this statement are verses describing a fool in their lifestyle, character, and dealings with money and other people.

This verse is…

Are We Closer Than We Think?

It doesn’t take long to find research that shows that Christianity is on the decline since the 1990′s and that the fastest growing religions in the United States are Deism, Sikhism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam.  Christianity (and I suppose we should really define what makes a Christian, but I won’t here) is supposedly the number one religion in America,…

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Where did God go, Part 2

Last post I mentioned how it seems like the great power of God in the bible seems gone in today’s world.  But then I highlighted similar feelings found in Psalms.  So what are we suppose to make of that?

I believe God purposefully kept these feelings inspired as Scripture for all time because He wanted to let us know…

Where did God go?

Often when people think of the bible, we think of how God was there in these big ways and it certainly was evident that there was a God and that He was active in the world.  This about it: creation, Adam and Eve, Noah and the ark, Elijah against the prophets, David and Goliath, Jericho and the walls came…