by Rebekah Binkley Montgomery | May 23, 2020 | Good Reads
You know him. He’s home reading the paper while his wife and children fill a church pew. When the pastor asks for prayer requests, his wife raises her hand and murmurs, “Unspoken.” But everyone knows. She’s been praying their entire marriage for her husband to come to...
by Rebekah Binkley Montgomery | May 23, 2020 | Good Reads
Many people have a hunch that the hands on the cosmic clock are pointing at a few minutes to midnight. Movie, television, and book producers are churning out doomsday stories. Even the newest generation is entitled Gen Z. My beloved grandmother, born in 1880, thought...
by Rebekah Binkley Montgomery | May 23, 2020 | Good Reads
Sunday morning. The acrid taste of dread fills your mouth as you think: I have to go to church. You want to go to church; just not your church. Your church is a ‘good’ church. The music is tolerable, the people are fine, the sermon is okay — mostly based on...
by Rebekah Binkley Montgomery | May 23, 2020 | Good Reads
We’ve all seen Hollywood caricature religious men as pasty-faced, effeminate, and hypocritical. Some artists even picture a testosterone-challenged Jesus. How has a Gospel begun by the Carpenter and spread by fishermen and other workingmen turn into a something for...
by Rebekah Binkley Montgomery | May 23, 2020 | Good Reads
It was a painful lesson God taught me early. When I was in high school, I worked in a nursing home. One of the patients was Jeanie, a former nun dying at age 32 of colon cancer. She was bitter with God for the cancer and felt rejected by Him. In her younger days,...
