I picked up the ringing telephone about 3 weeks ago to hear my distraught cousin tell me about her twin 6 year old boy who was in the hospital with H1N1 or swine flu. His twin sister had also had the flu but had recovered. He, on the other hand, was not doing well. She [...]
The kings of Israel and Judah could variously be classed as good or bad, depending on how godly their reign was. Some of the good kings were David, Asa, Josiah and Hezekiah; while the list of the bad kings included Ahab and Jehoram.
Other kings started well and ended badly, like Saul and Solomon, while [...]
Naaman the Syrian had a problem with his skin and it wasn’t one that money, rank or status could solve. He could not hide or gloss over his skin disease – it was there for everyone to see. It was humiliating, and so embarassing that he would have paid a large amount to be rid [...]
An important topic for Christians is the relationship between sin and sickness. Another is the connection between forgiveness of sins and mercy. There are many thoughts here, so this will likely be Part one of a series.
The first question is whether there is a connection between sin and sickness. The answer is [...]
A few years ago, I was talking on the phone with a friend in Atlanta. A few minutes in, she mentioned that she would be going in for an operation the next Friday, two days away. I asked what the problem was. She said that she had been driving a few days [...]