This week I'd like to share some articles I hope you'll find interesting. As Holy Week is upon us, we lead off with some pieces that will help us prepare for Good Friday and Easter.
Seems to be fairly common for kids to get into a competition of sorts with their parents. Mom or Dad says, "I love you"; the child replies, "I love you more." It's adorable how wrong they are. It's also instructive.
We live in a world full of poverty and oppression. There is real, soul-crushing need out there, and everyone's asking for help. You see it when you open the news. If you ever give any money to any aid organization, you'll get mail from all of them, eager to tell you about the deep needs they're trying to meet. It can be both heart-breaking and perplexing: What can I do? You're only one person, you only have so much money. When there's so much real poverty in the world, who do we help?
There's a distinction between two religious offices of the Old Testament we need to be clear on. This will help us to properly understand the Old and the New Testaments, and it will clear up some of the confusion people have as we live out our faith in the 21st century.
This week I'd like to share some articles I think you'll find helpful or edifying.
