bread of heaven

You are a Christian. You go to church and you read the Bible. Yet, you have somehow reached a point in your relationship with your spouse that you have decided to call it quits. Perhaps your pastor even appears to agree that you have no choice but to get out of the marriage. There are a few things I like to draw your attention to. If you still want to go ahead and dump you spouse after reading this, please leave a comment to explain why. Let me start by stressing the fact that I perfectly understand that you have come along way and been through a lot of hard times. You are at this point after a long time of enduring emotional turmoil beyond description, and you are thinking: “there’s no way I can go on like this; my life is all messed up; I’ve got to quit and find a way to pick up the pieces.” I know how hard it is for you. Just patiently go through this article, and you will be blessed. The first thing I like you consider is this statement in Romans 14:12: “So then every one of us...

In Acts 13:36, it is said of King David that he “served God's purposes in his own time, and then he died, was buried with his ancestors, and his body rotted in the grave.” (GNB) What a verdict! If you would love a similar verdict for yourself at the end of it all, you need to read this story and the comments that follow! At 8am on Saturday morning in a village in central Nigeria, a well known man in the village named Bello was leading a dog across the market place with a leash. He was hurrying toward a section of the market where unwanted dogs were usually sold off. The buyers were strange looking women who came from a distant place. They would buy these dogs and lock them up in metal cages, and at the close of business, they would take the dogs away in pick up vans. No one knew for sure what they did with the dogs, but the story was that the dogs were taken to a particular part of the country where dog meat was a delicacy. It seemed obvious to everyone that the fate of Mr. Bell...