He did many things well but there was a problem Everyone saw it But because he was so effective in accomplishing most of his role his anger issue wasn rsquo t adequately addressed He was never truly confronted Sadly this resulted in many people being hurt over the years And in the end it led to the premature close of a career that could have been something so much more for this brother in Christ If only I rsquo d chosen to confront him in love long ago In Genesis God provides the perfect picture of what it means to [... more]

In his poem ldquo The Witnesses rdquo Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ndash described a sunken slave ship As he wrote of ldquo skeletons in chains rdquo Longfellow mourned slavery rsquo s countless nameless victims The concluding stanza reads ldquo These are the woes of Slaves They glare from the abyss They cry from unknown graves We are the Witnesses rdquo But who do these witnesses speak to Isn rsquo t such silent testimony futile There is a Witness who sees it all When Cain murdered Abel he pretended nothing had happened ldquo Am I my brother rsquo s keeper rdquo he [... more]

Song of Songs Look not upon me because I am black because the sun hath looked upon me my mother's children were angry with me they made me the keeper of the vineyards but mine own vineyard have I not kept In Sam is a sad story of The House of The Rising Sun - Bethshemesh There is the stone of mourning The Stone of Abel - black from mourning which is phenominally connected to Genesis that Cain had toiled under the sun by plowing his field according to Josephus to gain by his merit not God's like his brother [... more]

During a promotional event in two seventy-three-year-old former Canadian Football League players got into a fistfight on stage They had a ldquo beef rdquo grudges and feuds between friends family members or enemies dating back to a controversial championship football game in After one man knocked the other off the stage the crowd called out to him to ldquo let it go rdquo They were telling him to ldquo squash the beef rdquo The Bible contains many examples of people ldquo beefing rdquo Cain held a grudge against his brother Abel because God accepted Abel rsquo s offering over his [... more]

Episode Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions Show Notes CoreChristianity com Does the gospel impact my life in any practical way or is it just about me getting to heaven When God was giving Cain his punishment after he murdered his brother Abel who were the people he was afraid would kill him What is the origin of demons My husband died a year ago and I have met someone whose spouse also died not so long ago Is it wrong or insensitive to think about remarriage this soon How do you explain what it means to be [... more]

A marine biologist was swimming near the Cook Islands in the South Pacific when a -pound humpback whale suddenly appeared and tucked her under its fin The woman thought her life was over But after swimming slowly in circles the whale let her go It rsquo s then that the biologist saw a tiger shark leaving the area The woman believes the whale had been protecting her mdash keeping her from danger In a world of danger we rsquo re called to watch out for others But you might ask yourself Should I really be expected to be responsible for [... more]

With a rampant drug culture and the disintegration of the family more and more grandparents find themselves caregiving parenting and struggling with enabling as well as their own marriages and health Norma and her husband are a family in crisis We discussed that while there's no solution there is a path But it's not going to easy Transcript Peter Norma in Indiana Norma Good morning Norma How you feeling Norma Not very well this morning Peter Not too well Norma No What I have a problem with is I have two grandchildren that I'm taking care of due to their [... more]