Does the End Justify the Means?

There are at least four components involved when people evaluate the validity of an idea. Where did it come from? What is the credibility of the information? Does it work? What will be the results? In other terms we think about the “helpfulness” of an idea, concept,...

One Person Can Make a Difference

But the people of Israel broke faith in regard to the devoted things, for Achan the son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. And the anger of the LORD burned against the people of Israel. Joshua 7:1 There is an...

Giving to the Giver

“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you for an inheritance and have taken possession of it and live in it, you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground, which you harvest from your land that the Lord your God is giving you,...

Abiding in Christ

“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit he takes away, and every branch that does bear fruit he prunes, that it may bear more fruit. Already you are clean because of the word that I have spoken to you. Abide...