The color red doesn rsquo t always naturally occur in the things we make How do you put the vibrant color of an apple into a T-shirt or lipstick In early times the red pigment was made from clay or red rocks In the s the Aztecs invented a way of using cochineal insects to make red dye Today those same tiny insects supply the world with red In the Bible red denotes royalty and it also signifies sin and shame Further it rsquo s the color of blood When soldiers ldquo stripped Jesus and put a scarlet robe on [... more]

Phillip rsquo s father suffered from severe mental illness and had left home to live on the streets After Cyndi and her young son Phillip spent a day searching for him Phillip was rightly concerned for his well-being He asked his mother whether his father and other people without homes were warm In response they launched an effort to collect and distribute blankets and cold-weather gear to homeless people in the area For more than a decade Cyndi has considered it her life rsquo s work crediting her son and her deep faith in God for awakening her to the [... more]

Dizziness struck me in the stairwell of the office building Overwhelmed I gripped the banister because the stairs seemed to spin As my heart pounded and my legs buckled I clung onto the banister thankful for its strength Medical tests showed I had anemia Although its cause wasn rsquo t serious and my condition was resolved I rsquo ll never forget how weak I felt that day That rsquo s why I admire the woman who touched Jesus She not only moved through the crowd in her weakened state but she also showed faith in venturing out to approach Him [... more]

On July Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped out of their lunar landing module and became the first humans to walk on the surface of the moon But we don rsquo t often think about the third person on their team Michael Collins who was flying the command module for Apollo After his teammates clambered down the ladder to test the lunar surface Collins waited alone on the far side of the moon He was out of touch with Neil Buzz and everyone on earth NASA rsquo s mission control commented ldquo Not since Adam has any human known such [... more]

Since God is so gracious merciful and loving why do people try to run from Him What is it about Jesus that sent people fleeing from His presence Today R C Sproul helps us gain a new perspective on these questions Get R C Sproul's 'The Holiness of God' th-Anniversary Edition Book with the Extended Edition of the Audio and Video Series Download for Your Gift of Any Amount https gift renewingyourmind org holiness-of-god Don't forget to make RenewingYourMind org your home for daily in-depth Bible study and Christian resources [... more]

Twice this summer I suffered the scourge of poison ivy Both times it happened I was working on clearing away unwanted plant growth from our yard And both times I saw the nasty three-leafed enemy lurking nearby I figured I could get close to it without it affecting me Soon enough I realized I rsquo d been wrong Instead of getting nearer to my little green nemesis I should have run the other way In the Old Testament story of Joseph we see modeled the principle of running from something worse than poison ivy sin When he was living in [... more]

An Atlanta police officer asked a driver if she knew why he had stopped her ldquo No idea rdquo she said in bewilderment ldquo Ma rsquo am you were texting while driving rdquo the officer gently told her ldquo No no rdquo she protested holding up her cell phone as evidence ldquo It rsquo s an email rdquo Using a cell phone to send an email doesn rsquo t grant us a loophole from a law that prohibits texting while driving The point of the law isn rsquo t to prevent texting it rsquo s to prevent distracted driving Jesus [... more]

Walking with Integrity in Times of Adversity [... more]

The man ahead of me at the carwash was on a mission He purposefully strode to the back of his pickup and removed the hitch so it wouldn rsquo t snag the high-powered rolling brushes He paid the attendant then pulled onto the automated track mdash where he left his truck in drive The attendant shouted after him ldquo Neutral Neutral rdquo but the man rsquo s windows were up and he couldn rsquo t hear He zipped through the car wash in four seconds flat His truck barely got wet Elijah was on a mission too He was busy [... more]

Episode Adriel Sanchez and Bill Maier answer caller questions Show Notes CoreChristianity com I'm still relatively new to the faith Recently I've been confused about the meaning of st John chapter verse There are a lot of discrepancies regarding that verse and many are using it to say that we must uphold God's law including the sabbath I ended up going deep down the rabbit hole of the internet a couple weeks back and I've discovered that there are some groups claiming that our salvation is contingent upon our obedience to the Mosaic Law I know that we aren't justified [... more]

Since God is so gracious merciful and loving why do people try to run from Him What is it about Jesus that sent people fleeing from His presence Today R C Sproul helps us gain a new perspective on these questions Get two copies of 'God Is Holy' by R C Sproul for Free https gift renewingyourmind org god-is-holy Don't forget to make RenewingYourMind org your home for daily in-depth Bible study and Christian resources [... more]

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