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A song we sing regularly in our Spanish-speaking church is Hay Libertad en la Casa de Dios (There is Freedom in the House of God). My sixteen-year-old recently questioned the validity of this song. She argued that the church is much more a house of rules than a house...

Too Much Grumbling

The Book of Numbers, admittingly, does not make for the most riveting reading. If you start from the beginning, it becomes excruciatingly clear why it’s called Numbers, as it appears to be simply a catalog of the Israelites and their possessions. Near its...

God is wiser

I live in a city of 1.3 million people in a developing country. Traffic, therefore, can be a nightmare. There are only three decent roads in the city, further complicating matters. The intersection where two of these meet is obviously a major choke point, where it is...

God is Graceful

When I was in college, I had an awesome roommate. He was incredibly fun, but he was also a real cheapskate and ate A LOT. This often meant stealing my food, but on one occasion he actually went to the grocery store himself. He came back all excited that he had bought...

God is Faithful

When my wife was eight months pregnant with our first child I had to fly from our home in New Jersey to attend a wedding in Nebraska. While I was worried about traveling that close to her due date, our doctor assured me my wife was unlikely to go into labor that...