by Edward Thal | Jul 16, 2024 | Article
A shepherd of God’s people is a living testimony to the reality of God. Sunday sermons are only one aspect of the larger sermon that is the outworking of the Life of God in a pastor’s life and in the life of his family. He is “known and read by all men” as an object...
by Edward Thal | Jul 9, 2024 | Article
The old idiom says that every cloud has a silver lining. But when the “bad weather” of life’s trials come your way, what do you see—the storm clouds or the silver lining? It may be true for some people that there are few silver linings in their circumstances,...
by Edward Thal | Jul 2, 2024 | Article
The gift of salvation is transformative – it makes “all things new” (2 Corinthians 5:17). Yet this marvelous restoration of what God intended for us in the beginning, before sin entered the human heart, cannot be fully appreciated when it is first experienced because...
by Edward Thal | Jun 25, 2024 | Article
Doubts or questions about what the future holds should be eased by the simple, powerful, unequivocal statement that opens the Scriptures: In the beginning, God! The familiar words are compelling in their brevity. The powerful majesty of creation is sketched with...
by Edward Thal | Jun 19, 2024 | Article
Jesus invites little children to come to Him. The Apostle Paul, a brilliant religious scholar, declares emphatically in his letter to the Corinthians that he values God’s power much more than his own intellect. What the worldly wise consider foolishness says...
