An unending exercise in blessed futility
Gandalf the Grey once observed, “There are other forces at work in this world, Frodo, besides the will of evil….And that’s an encouraging thought.” Christians’ attitudes about the spread of the gospel and the progress of the human condition between now and when Jesus returns range from very optimistic to very pessimistic. There are biblical
About 3,400 years ago, a man named Moses climbed a mountain to talk to God on behalf of a very large group of refugees. God, who had saved these people from slavery through a series of awesome and terrifying acts of judgment on their oppressors, covered the mountain with dark clouds and thundered out an
