You may not typically think of working in hospitality as a particularly powerful job, but this work has great power when we...
Mercy is equal parts forgiveness and compassion. Mercy is God’s chief attribute. Do a quick Google search of “the Lord is merciful,”...
I have a confession to make. It won’t impress you with my godliness but perhaps with my cultural saturation. Here it goes: when I hear the word mercy, I sometimes think of the...
As Jesus and his disciples journeyed near Jericho, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus heard that Jesus was about to pass his way...
I must confess that when I first read Psalm 94:1, I cringed. How could the Lord be a “God of vengeance”? Isn’t he a God of mercy, love, and forgiveness? Moreover, if God...
Jesus commented, “This tax man, not the other, went home made right with God. If you walk around with your nose in...
Recently I found myself stuck in the "baby zone" of an airplane.
In Exodus 33, God communicated his extreme displeasure to Israel because of their idolatrous worship using the golden calf.
This is one of those marvelous verses that sums up weighty theological truths in very few words. In the context of Romans, Paul is underscoring a point made before. “God has imprisoned everyone ...
Paul makes it abundantly clear in Romans 11 that we Gentiles must not become prideful because of our relationship with God. We must never look down upon the Jewish people as if we are somehow...
Let’s be clear. There is a mystery in God’s story that we will never fully solve. That mystery begins in the fact that God is “rich in mercy” (Eph. 2:4), yet doesn’t give...
We have already seen in Romans that the good news of God’s salvation in Jesus Christ comes in response to the bad news of our sin. Romans 3:23-24 puts this in a nutshell...
The created foundations of finance include our creation as social beings who take risk and do not know what the future holds...
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If you are blessed with sorrow for your own failings (the second beatitude) and with right relationships (the fourth beatitude), you will...
Jesus’ final teaching in this section examines how we treat those in need. In this account, when Jesus returns in his glory...
In Romans 9–11, Paul returns to the immediate problem the letter is meant to address—the conflict between Jewish and Gentile Christians. Since...
The brief letter of Jude paints a startling picture of one very dysfunctional workplace—a church blighted by ungodly leaders. Some of the problems are unique to churches, such as denying Jesus Christ (Jude...
By Rev’d Dr. Kenneth J. Barnes, Dean of the Marketplace Institute, Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia In his collected papers entitled, Reflections on...
