CGG Weekly published this essay, “Evil Is Real (Part Four),” on September 17, 2010. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” —Jeremiah 17:9 Jesus, speaking in Mark 7 about defilement originating within us, lists several of the evils He wants us to overcome …
CGG Weekly published this essay, “Evil Is Real (Part Three),” on September 10, 2010. “If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask Him!” —Matthew 7:11 When we …
I wrote this essay, “Evil Is Real (Part Two),” for CGG Weekly on September 3, 2010. “For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.” —Romans 7:19 It is amazing to realize how blunt God is in His …
I wrote this essay, “The Rare Virtue of Self-Mastery,” for the December 31, 2021, CGG Weekly. “. . . teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in the present age.” —Titus 2:12 January 1 is just hours away, which means New Year’s Eve celebrations …
This essay, “Death Is Not the End (Part One),” appeared in the CGG Weekly on March 12, 2010. “And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.” —Hebrews 9:27 Looking at life from God’s point of view, He stacks the deck in man’s favor. …
This essay, “What Is Real Conversion? (Part Four),” appeared in the December 25, 2009, issue of CGG Weekly. “But we all, with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit …
“What Is Real Conversion? (Part Three)” appeared in CGG Weekly on December 18, 2009. “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” —I John 1:9 Parts One and Two of this series considered the questions of …
CGG Weekly published this essay, “A Bridge Too Frail,” on August 3, 2007. “Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves.” —II Corinthians 13:5 On Friday, in the murky waters of the Mississippi River, as it flows through Minneapolis, Minnesota, divers were still searching through the …
