Tag Archives: hypocrisy

It was known as the “captain of death” for centuries, but Tuberculosis had a deceptive air of beauty on the surface. A Victorian woman was considered beautiful when her lips were ruby-colored, her skin translucent and pale, and her eyes bright and sparkling. But it was the look of a ...

Authorities–the earthly “powers that be”–isn’t their purpose to maintain order in this world filled with sinful people roaming the earth? Laws are established to create civilized societies, yet we are driving 100 miles an hour toward a world of barbarism. Instead of establishing and keeping order, many appointed and elected ...

American tolerance for Christians is very thin.  Not all of the criticism of Christianity is unwarranted.   Just or unjust, persecution is guaranteed—and will bring blessing to the Church.  It is a tool of transformation which will bring the unity Christ prayed for in John 17:1, “I pray that they will all be ...

A graphic scene unfolds in Genesis 19, in which two angels visit Sodom and are compelled by Lot to stay in his home, rather than spend the night in the town square. At nightfall, all the men in the city surround Lot’s house, demanding to have sex with his two visitors. ...

Those Pharisees! Their lives have been described as resembling a gravestone, clean and polished on the outside, while inside they contain ruin and destruction. The Pharisees had more than one problem. Not only did they demand of others what they were unwilling to do themselves, but they went further by ...