Then Abraham approached him and said: “Will you sweep away the righteous with the wicked? (Genesis 18:23) In the previous article in our series on the inner life of Jesus, we followed the story of Abraham having a meal with…
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Love, Mercy, and Evil
Tagged with: Abraham, bible, Christianity, compassion, God, healing, Jesus, love, mercy, perfectionism, salvation, Sodom, spirituality, the Bible
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in All About God, The Bible Re-Viewed
Flight of the Condor
Imagine for a moment that you suffered a catastrophic illness that has kept you hospitalized for such a long time that you forget what it feels like to be out in the world. In the early days of your illness,…
Tagged with: andean condor, bible, condor, eagle's wings, greed, love, Martin Luther King Jr, race relations, racial politics, racism, rationality, selfishness, spirituality
Posted in Current Events
Posted in Current Events
Is God Free?
In a recent comment here on Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life, a reader called sran4275 posted two videos by American intellectual Robert Lawrence Kuhn titled “Is God Totally Free?” and “How Free is God?” The videos feature interviews with various…
Tagged with: divine law, free will, freedom, freedom of choice, God, love, omnipotence, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, time and space
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
Two Kinds of Love, Two Kinds of Sex
Sex is sex, right? Not quite. There’s sex, and then there’s sex. “What?” Okay, there’s biological sex, and there’s spiritual sex. From the outside they look pretty much the same. But on the inside, they’re completely different. That’s because they…
Tagged with: biological sex, intimacy, love, marriage, Marriage Love, relationships, sex, sex drive, sexual intercourse, sexual reproduction, sexuality, spiritual marriage, spiritual sex, spirituality
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships
Is Money Evil?
There’s a popular saying from the Bible: “Money is the root of all evil.” There’s only one problem: That’s not what the Bible says. Here’s what the Bible does say, in the traditional King James Version: For the love of…
The Infant Lord
Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you now dismiss your servant in peace. For my eyes have seen your salvation, which you have prepared in the sight of all people, a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory…
Tagged with: glorification, Haran, inner life of Jesus, Jesus Christ, love, Simeon, The Call of Abram, The Fertile Crescent, Ur of the Chaldeans
Posted in All About God
Posted in All About God
How Can I Be Sure that My Partner will Be Waiting for Me in Heaven?
The article “Will Happily Married Couples be Together in Heaven?” has become one of the most heavily read posts here on the Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life website. Since the time it was published five years ago, it has been…
Tagged with: death, eternal marriage, heaven, love, marriage, marriage in heaven, soulmates
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Afterlife
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Afterlife
Marriage in Heaven: A Response to Randy Alcorn and John Piper
In a comment posted here, a reader named Eric Breaux asked for my response to a couple of articles by two well-known Christian writers and preachers, Randy Alcorn and John Piper. You can read the articles here: Do You Think…
Tagged with: eternal marriage, heaven, John Piper, love, marriage, marriage in heaven, Randy Alcorn, relationships, Sadducees, the Bible
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Afterlife
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, The Afterlife
What if my Family Doesn’t Approve of the Person I Want to Marry?
Here is a recent comment (slightly edited) that a reader named Alyssa left in response to the article, “What if My Partner and I Have Different Religious Beliefs? Can Interfaith Marriage Work?”: I really enjoyed reading your article. I am…
Tagged with: family, interfaith marriage, love, marriage, Marriage Love, relationships, spiritual marriage, true love
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships
Can I be Saved if I Hate my Mother?
Here is a Spiritual Conundrum submitted to Spiritual Insights for Everyday Life by a reader named Mary: Greetings, Lee. I have been an Eastern Orthodox Christian my entire life, despite brief forays into other denominations, even considering myself an agnostic…
Tagged with: Father, honor your father and your mother, love, mother, parenting, parents, relationships, The Ten Commandments
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, Spiritual Growth
Posted in Sex Marriage Relationships, Spiritual Growth
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