What would Jesus do? This common & ever popular question gets bantered around among Christians with little actual awareness of what Jesus was actually like. When we see blatant sin among supposed Christians, are we to respond with meekness and love? Is that what Jesus did? When He encountered people who considered themselves righteous profaning His Father's house with a selfish pursuit of profit rather than worship, what did Jesus do? (John 2:12-17) When He encountered

Have you ever been hurting; I mean really hurting, and God’s Word and other’s remarks, kind and true as they might be seemed hollow? I certainly have. When I was falsely accused of child abuse, I heard and received notes with the typical, Christian platitudes, from well-meaning people wanting to encourage me. Sadly though, after my son was taken away, I was terribly angry at God. I quit reading his Word and was, therefore, no longer open to God's words of love and comfort

Psalm 34:8 says, "Taste and see that the Lord is good." Honestly though, from my vantage point, the evidence from my life once seemed in direct contradiction to those words. To my way of thinking, only three possible explanations used to exist to explain God's goodness as that verse expressed. God is good, just not to me. What we humans define as good varies greatly from what God defines as good, and since He's God, He gets to define things as He so chooses. I'm