How can a blog post with a one-word title like “Grace” have enough depth and undisputed merit to warrant such an endeavor? Read on and find out. What if all the editors gave unmeasured grace to every writer who submitted his or her work? That would be an unkind kindness. Readers everywhere would be deluged with atrocious articles or books, although there might be a spattering of good reading material. Unmeasured grace would not do good to increase the author’s writing skills or the reader’s enjoyment of a good read. What if reviews gushed on with how great all published Read More
Tag: Bible
This is Going to be Easy!
Four sophomores at a State University were taking chemistry, and all of them had an ‘A’ so far. These four friends were so confident that this is going to be easy the weekend before finals, they decided to visit some friends and party. They had a good time but, after all the partying, they slept all day Sunday and didn’t make it back to the University until late Monday morning. They missed the final. They decided they would tell their professor they had a flat tire, and “could we take the final tomorrow?” The professor agreed. The guys were excited Read More
Refiner’s Fire
Malachi 3:3 says, “He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.” This verse on the refiner’s fire puzzled some of us women at a Bible study. We wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God. One woman offered to find out the process of refining silver to see if it gave meaning to our puzzlement and would get back to our group at our next Bible study. When Scripture speaks to us and we do not understand its message, we must search to find the answer. And that is exactly what one woman did. Read More