ADBC: 38 – Slavery, The Deal with the Devil, And Learning From Teaching?

Here’s the premise of the conversation. Previously in the conversation: It is not possible to effectively answer every single question that’s put to you at the time of asking it. It’s not possible because we’re finite beings with limited capacity. Thus some questions may be beyond our sphere of knowledge. In conversing with my brother, he […]

Dryden Shorts: Do Not Be Overcome … But Overcome

When it happened this is how he felt: distraught, confused, hurt. He could have reacted by withdrawing and simmering in bitterness. He could have reacted with furious aggression and contempt. Acknowledging his feelings, though, he breathed out a prayer for strength and received the Spirit. He reached out in love, he sought to repair any […]

Dryden Shorts: It’s Not For You

It looks like it’s for you. It talks about meeting your needs. It outlines the plan to look after you. It refers to the success people have “enjoyed”. But it is not for you. It is not designed to get the best out of you or to do right by you. It is designed to […]

The Marks 14: Do Not Repay Evil With Evil

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. That’s a very simple thing to say and it’s packed with much truth and it’s often ignored. Here’s why it’s ignored. Whether it’s under the guise of self-defence or through the encouragement to stand up for yourself and be strong, there is something that just […]

The Outcry

Why don’t you do something about it? You see the wickedness. You see the corruption. You see the pain. You see the devastation. You see the suffering. You see the oppression. You see the injustice. Why don’t you do something about it? Why don’t you just stop it all? Why don’t you just wipe out […]

What’s The News? (TMIM #02)

There is good news worth sharing. What makes it good news is not just what it does for me in a personal way. What makes it good news is more than just what I get out of it, or what you get out of it. The good news worth sharing gets to the heart of […]

The Marks: 02 Hate What’s Evil; Cling To Good

Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good. Romans 12:9 Words. I love them. They do a wide variety of things to me. And when it comes to words I don’t use often, there is something in me that wants to find out about those words. For example, consider this word ‘abhor’. Now […]

How Long? (A Thought on the Problem of Evil)

This video says so much about honesty in our engagement with God on issues that trouble us. For His Name’s Sake Shalom C. L. J. Dryden

The Kings II 21 – Judgment of Judah

Hezekiah had represented a great height of integrity and devotion to God from the throne in the southern kingdom of Judah. It is strange, then, that his son who succeeded him, would be such a complete contrast. The twenty-first chapter of 2 Kings, however, depicts Manasseh, a king so wicked that he had no issue […]

The Kings II 15 – Unrest and Upheaval in Israel

In the time of Pekah king of Israel, Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria came and took Ijon, Abel Beth Maakah, Janoah, Kedesh and Hazor. He took Gilead and Galilee, including all the land of Naphtali, and deported the people to Assyria. (2 Kings 15:29 NIV) The writer of the account in Kings rattles through a number […]

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