For the mountains may depart and the hills be removed, but my steadfast love shall not depart from you, and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,” says the Lord, who has compassion on you. Isaiah 54:10 Yesterday evening I realized I had become anxious, irritated and agitated over
Category: Compassion
Pity is pretty much a hated word. When you add one more syllables it becomes, “pitiful.” Who wants to encourage someone else to be pitiful? But if showing pity always leads to people being pitiful then why is it a consistent action of God toward humanity? Why are God and
Proverbs 9:6 Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of understanding. Part of what made the West great is our belief that there are simple and straightforward solutions to our problems. Westerners see a problem like unsanitary drinking water and don’t respond with, “oh the Gods must
Natural disaster pose tremendous public challenges to the Christian faith. Right now religious people are being mocked on social media by people like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and the one of the newest champions of secularism, Muslim atheist, Ali Rizvi, because we are calling for prayer in response to Hurricane
On Monday Morning August 29th 2005 Hurricane Katrina made its second landfall in Bay St. Louis Mississippi, a date and event that is etched in my memory, in part because a few hours later I would look at my email inbox and see a letter from a pastor in Lafayette