“You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures” (James 4:3). What is your motivation? Is it to…
“What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?” (James 4:1) If one learns to be content…
“And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace” (James 3:18). Often, the simple way of going about things is the last that…
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“But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy” (James 3:17). First pure. Create in me a clean…
Rev. Thomas E. Jacobson, Ph.D. It is now old news that the issue of abortion in the United States, which has long simmered on medium heat in our national discourse,…
“Ciao! I’m Jackson. I’m from the United States. What’s your name?” This is the gist of how I started conversations during my time in Italy this past May and June.…
Over the course of the past three decades, I have had the immense privilege of leading disaster relief efforts around the country, typically following a natural catastrophic event. Since my…
King Solomon was blessed in many ways with the wisdom the Lord had given him. He asked for wisdom (1 Kings 3:9) and he received it. We must hastily add,…