"...to rule them all."

January 14, 2021 by Joel Burns in politics, Issues & Commentary

Those who have warned us about the kinds of people who seek for power knew what they were talking about. We ought to have listened to them more carefully and if we did not before, we most definitely should start listening now. It may already be to late to heed their calls seriously. But either way, we should not be at all shocked when we see the extent to which those who would have power are willing to go.

Christian, never allow your lack of ability to relate give rise to an inability or unwillingness to see.

Listen To Christ In the Midst of Catastrophe

April 07, 2020 by Joel Burns in devotions

Whatever else the Bible might say about God’s involvement or judgment or sin or compassion in the midst of this outbreak, remember at least Christ’s call to repent.

Receiving Evil from God: Christ & COVID-19

March 25, 2020 by Joel Burns in meditations

You cannot read the Bible at face value and come away with the ideas that God has nothing to do with the current epidemic coursing through the world or that He never has anything at all to do with the difficulties that come into our lives. Only a Bible read through dense, thick lenses of wishful thinking and insistence on our own definitions of love and goodness can be made to reach that conclusion.