I really believe the purpose of Scripture is to give us this authoritative handbook.
Revenge is the raging fire that consumes the arsonist.
We celebrate the First Advent to whet our appetites for the Second. We long for the next coming.
I don't get asked a lot of questions about who is the best political candidate or what my position is on what the Senate is about to do.
Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.
In our grandparents' generation news of an earthquake in Nepal would reach around the world some days later. In our parents' day the nightly news communicated the catastrophe. Now it's a matter of minutes. We've barely processed one crisis, and then we hear of another.