Author: Karen S. Roberts
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If God is Good … Faith in the Midst of Suffering and Evil – A review
If the Creator of the world is good, why is there evil? Randy Alcorn tackles an age-old question with unique insight and logic. I have asked “Why?”many times. Like Job, never an answer to the question, but a refocus on the greatness of God. Alcorn writes: Grace and forgiveness, both expressions of God’s eternal character,…
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Possess the promises God has for you
“For throughout all their journeys, the cloud of the LORD was on the tabernacle by day, and there was fire in it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel.” Exodus 40:38 God led the children of Israel through the desert with a cloud overshadowing them by day and a pillar of…
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An email from inside Israel today
I just received an email from a friend in Israel. I emailed her yesterday that I was praying for her and her family and friends. It is below. Thanks! Here’s a copy and paste you can pass on! I’m at a friend in Bnei Braq using her computer. My daughters and I are thankfully NOT…
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Are you truly free?
Now if the ministry that brought death, which was engraved in letters on stone, came with glory, so that the Israelites could not look steadily at the face of Moses because of its glory, transitory though it was, will not the ministry of the Spirit be even more glorious? 2 Corinthians 3:7-8 The second time…
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Celebrate your freedom by thanking a vet, soldier, military family member
Each year, our community decorates golf carts, motorcycles, and an old fire truck. Gleeful residents parade through the streets celebrating Independence Day. Tonight, there will be barbecues and fireworks. Our nation’s founders declared their independence to govern themselves and worship as they pleased. Before the declaration of freedom, they engaged in war. Lives were saved…
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Hiding in the cave of despair? Do what David did
The entrance to a cave in Deir-Dubban, six miles southwest of Bethlehem on the border of the Philistine plains and at the foot of the Judean mountains. There are a number of vaults about 15 to 20 feet deep, and perhaps David and his family lived for a time in one of the vaults.…
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Have you chosen a hard life? 3 steps to the good life
I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants, by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is…
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Do you call God Daddy?
Daddy found his artistic abilities in his retirement. But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law, so that He might redeem those who were under the Law, that we might receive…
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Unwrapping Lazarus, a review
Dr. Pete Carter’s job description is “to bring hope wherever I am.” Unwrapping Lazarus: Freeing the Supernatural in Your Life beckons the reader to unwrap the bindings of traditions and learned religion in order to open our lives to the great and precious promises and possibilities that God has for His children–to live in freedom…