by MJR | Feb 8, 2011 | Christianity, Focus on Living
King David was an ordinary man like us. Scripture tells us he was a man after God’s heart, but he had his failures. He was a warrior and a murderer, a husband and an adulterer, but in his failure he returned to God. Psalm 51: 16-17 16 You do not delight in...
by MJR | Feb 7, 2011 | Christianity, Faith
Genesis 15:6 tells us, “Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness.” The Grace of God is so radically different from other world views and religions. When was the last time you heard someone refer to their karma? Or maybe someone...
by MJR | Feb 4, 2011 | Christianity, Focus on Living
In his letters, Paul often speaks of his prayer and thankfulness for others. In verse twelve he writes of the mutual strength and encouragement he both offers and longs to receive from the believers in Rome. Paul was not looking forward to just talking about the...
by MJR | Feb 1, 2011 | Christianity, Faith
After a Bengals game, my son Jacob and I encountered a man passing out Super Bowl Trivia cards. I suspected he was doing something more. He was. The man stood quietly outside the stadium offering his cards to people as the left the game. Some people reached for the...
by MJR | Jan 25, 2011 | Christianity, Gratitude
“We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is “good,” because is it good, if “bad” because it works in us patience, humility, and the contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.” C.S. Lewis Now that our kids are...
by MJR | Jan 25, 2011 | Christianity, Focus on Living, Forgiveness
What is the source of human conflict? How could a man enter a police station in Detroit and open fire? Why does someone plant a luggage bomb in Russia? Why does a man choose to leave his wife for a relationship with a woman he met on the internet? What was a man...
