God is pleased by faith. But God is displeased when we surrender to the spirit of control, which has us engaging in a flash in envying, malice, strife, and other malevolence. Fear works in each of us, and it’s not the only cause of sin, but it’s there and thereabouts […]

“We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so we despaired of life itself… ” These are very familiar words. They are, indeed, the words of the apostle Paul in 2 Corinthians 1:8. Paul goes on to say that it felt like they had received a death […]