O ne day, Mary was watching TV and happened upon a special news commentary on Somalia.  Depressed at the whole situation, she flipped to another channel.   Suddenly, she was rebuked about her reaction.  She thought, When God sees disaster, He doesn’t turn the channel.  He doesn’t ignore the suffering in Somalia, and neither can I.   So, Mary flipped back to the channel, and there she saw something she’ll never forget—the  picture of an infant trying to nurse from the breast o

The Bible admonishes us to have a healthy fear of God. He is the absolutely pure and righteous being who abhors evil. He cannot tolerate any unrighteousness. Habakkuk 1:13 tells us, “Your eyes are too pure to look on evil; You cannot tolerate wrong” (NIV). God cannot secretly inspire any evil in us, for in His very nature He cannot accept any evil in any form.   God’s holiness requires consequences for sin. We have broken His standard of holiness, and His holiness demands tha

As a teen-age hemophiliac, Steve Sawyer contracted the AIDS virus through a blood transfusion. A few years later, while in college, Steve placed his trust in Christ.   “I know I’ve been given heaven.  So what am I going to do about it?” he once said.   This is what he did.  He dropped out of college and began traveling worldwide, speaking to more than 100,000 students about Jesus Christ.  Some 10,000 accepted Christ as their Savior.   Steve died in 1999 at age 24.  His short