This past weekend our family attended a middle school play. We knew one of the kids who was performing and had an enjoyable night supporting him. The play wasn’t one I had heard of before (which, honestly, would be true of most plays), but it turned out to be a prequel-origin story of a well-known …
Some think of Jesus as a model for morals and ethics while others think of him as a solution to immediate problems. He certainly set a perfect example of Human living and he did a number of things to aid those who faced temporal suffering, but his purpose in coming was much greater.
There is a sentence at the end of Genesis that summarizes the message of the book. “As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today” (Genesis 50:20, ESV). When we witness ethical decay, injustices, and …
