Knee-Bending Lifestyle Places Others Before Self

The Apostle Paul tells the Christians in Philippi that every knee ought to bend at the name of the God-exalted Jesus and that every tongue ought to confess that the God-chosen Jesus is the guide and governor of all of life.   Paul isn’t making a claim about what...

Lose Some Life to Save Some

I don’t think Jesus had those 128 soldiers primarily in mind when he taught his disciples that “those who lose their lives … will save their lives.”   Those 128 refer to the number of U.S. soldiers who took their own lives in 2008—the fourth year in a row that this...