Our Republic is in trouble. The grass roots movements against our moral decline are strong but not yet strong enough, nor are they rallying exclusively beneath the Lord’s banner. The founding fathers of our nation understood that the Republic would stand only so long as its constituents remained “virtuous”. Virtue in this country was once […]
During her dessert wanderings, Israel was frequently unbelieving and disobedient. Had I been one of those Israelites, after the umpteenth time of relating to God in this way, the coming dawn of another day would have been greeted with a great deal of anxiety: would there be Manna yet again? I’d have been brought up […]
In all of this is yet another “proto-evangel” …the Gospel according to Joseph. He acknowledges his own brothers’ evil purposes toward him: “You meant it for evil.” There is no effort to deny their sin (quite the contrary!). But he draws their attention to something else (or rather to Someone else) Who was behind their […]
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree: At the end of Genesis, Joseph’s brothers, like their father before them (and like Jacob’s mother Rebecca before him), show themselves to be manipulators: they lie to Joseph, telling him that before he died, their dad “commanded him” to forgive them. While Jacob was alive, they had […]
Another implication in all of this is that God’s justice is simply the “knee-jerk” reaction of Himself to His “non-being” (albeit on a derived and dependent scale in the case of his creatures – both angels and men – since, when left to ourselves without His intervening Redemptive Love, all we can ever BE are […]
Among other things, “God is love” reveals the TriUnity of the Being of God which is a “Theontological” Necessity…a Necessity of His own Being, in other words since love presupposes Relationship (If love did not characterize the intertrinitarian Fellowship, He would self destruct; that is to say that He would not and could not BE […]
The story of Lazarus and the rich man which Jesus relates to his disciples and to the Jews, among other things, makes it plain that, ultimately, all rewards are the rewards of a God Who’s grace alone governs ALL His dealings with His people (yes, even rewards), and that ultimately His rewards are future: “stored […]