Closely Connected Care
With each cultural crisis or natural disaster, our minds are freshly flooded with a litany of images and calls to come to the aid of our neighbors who have been the victims of an injustice or who have suffered loss.…
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Nothing Like It in All the World
Recently, in my Bible reading, I came to the book of Jonah (I’ve been working through the Minor Prophets). It struck me how remarkable this message is compared to everything else in the ancient world. Homer was a contemporary of…
The Gentleness and Fierceness of Christ
Isaiah’s first Servant Song (Is.42:1-4) pictures a Servant who is gentle, patient, unthreatening and tender hearted. It is a magnificent portrait of the Lord Jesus Christ, the perfect Servant of the Lord. It is remarkable that in his recorded public…
Not Just a Soup Kitchen by David Apple
Today, so many churches are comfortable following the practice of previous generations that didn’t involve themselves in ministries of mercy. Many today are fearful of thinking “outside of the box” and lack vision and biblical direction. In 1983, one small…