Making Life Work

From Ronald L. Dart's Program Notes:

    Does God get angry? We know he does. Everyone has heard about the wrath of God. It’s fair to say many people don’t see what God has to be all that angry about. When they read the Scriptures about the wrath of God, they may shiver a little, but they really don’t understand. They either think of God as a belligerent tyrant, or they don’t believe he’s all that angry.

    Between the movies, The Ten Commandments and The Prince of Egypt, everybody knows how the death of the firstborn in Egypt was the means God used to finally force Pharaoh to let the Israelites go. But, someone asked on one of our Internet forums why God had to kill the firstborn of Egypt just to get the Israelites out of there. After all, he’s...

By: Ronald L. Dart

    "Master," they asked Jesus, " who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" The logic behind the question was simple. God's creation was perfect; so for a man to be born handicapped, something must have gone wrong. Jesus' disciples simply wanted to know what had gone wrong. It is an agonizing question–one faced by the parents of every child born handicapped. Yet most of these parents handle the question better than I would have thought.