I remember the day in 2005 a crazed, armed man named Charles Carl Roberts burst into an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania. He chased out everyone but ten schoolgirls, tied them all together, and was preparing to molest them when the police showed up, leading him to open fire on them and then kill […]
Jeanne1 looked poised and confident outwardly, but nervousness and worry gripped her within. A young professional, she was facing life’s challenges while fighting a constant battle with severe anxiety. It disrupted her daily life and made many tasks seem daunting. Physiological changes like tense muscles and a racing heart added to her distress, causing her […]
Trust in Divine Power: Ask God to help you recognize and overcome stressors associated with anxiety. To practice trusting God’s divine power, cultivate gratitude and nurture your relationship with God through daily prayer, Bible reading, and meditating on His love—especially as shown in the closing scenes of Christ’s life. You can also reflect on past […]
Thomas Jefferson, the author of the American Declaration of Independence, claimed to be a follower of the teachings of Jesus Christ. The problem was, he didn’t always like what he read in those teachings. He also “didn’t always agree with how the Bible was interpreted by Biblical sources, including the writers of the four Gospels, […]
About 80 years ago, intense research was initiated on the effects of music on human behavior. The initial findings surprised most medical and behavioral scientists. Research demonstrated that the sensation of music is perceived directly through the hypothalamus (the center of our emotions), bypassing conscious thought.1 Through nerve connections, the hypothalamus can then affect our […]
Two vehicles approached an intersection at speed one bleak afternoon in rural Canada. The one, a bus, was carrying the Humboldt Broncos junior ice hockey team to a playoff game. The other, a tractor-trailer carrying 900 bales of peat moss, was driven by an Indian immigrant, Jaskirat Sidhu. It was his first month of solo […]
It seems to me that a very dangerous theological trend has developed among Christians of late. It is the idea that we are to just love and accept everybody as they are and incorporate them into church fellowship without helping them feel guilt for their open sin and a desire to change. I believe that […]
In the reign of wicked King Ahab of Israel, good King Jehoshaphat of Judah visited him. Ahab treated Jehoshaphat and his retinue with great pomp and ceremony and then extracted a promise from Jehoshaphat to bring the army of Judah to help Israel fight against the Syrians. Jehoshaphat seems to have agreed impulsively without first […]
If you die, what difference would it make to you if you went straight to heaven upon death, or were unconscious until the resurrection and then went to heaven? Either way, your next conscious experience would be going to heaven, wouldn’t it? But if you’ve lost beloved family members, which would you prefer: to believe […]
Confusion about what happens to a soul at the time of death has led many sincere Christians to believe they can assist their departed loved ones towards a happier and holier state in the next life through prayer, almsgiving, and mass. Some religions teach that most people don’t finish getting ready for heaven in this […]