Jim Novell

It is right and good to believe and say that all lives matter, that every person is equal in dignity and value as a being made in the image of God for the glory of God. However, there is one person, one man, whose life matters more than that of any other man, infinitely more, […]

I continue on this dark, dreaded and scornful topic of sin, not because I find it fascinating or take some perverse delight in doing so, but because I believe that until we begin to comprehend the breadth, length and depth of our sin; how vile and detestable it is in the eyes of God and

(I am taking a break from the topic of sin, to encourage you with the following.) In a time of non-stop fear mongering and government overreach regarding COVID 19, civil unrest and violent demonstrations, along with mean spirited/divisive political maneuvering, we look to the prophet Isaiah who encourages God’s people with the following: “You will

In Luke 10:25-28 we have an interchange between Jesus and one of the religious leaders of His day who questions Jesus as to what he must do to inherit eternal life, referring to the glorious life with God for which mankind was created in the beginning; the life that was lost, forfeited because of Adam’s

Almost 50 years ago, a world-renowned psychiatrist, Dr. Karl Menninger, founder of the famed Menninger Clinic and Menninger Foundation, wrote a book entitled Whatever Became of Sin?  In it he expressed concern that the concept of sin, of moral culpability for our actions to God and neighbor, was being eliminated in an increasingly secularized culture

Anna and Simeon lived 2000 years ago as aging members of an oppressed people under the rule of Rome, the most powerful and brutal nation in the world. The world at that time was, as it is today, a broken world; a world where conflict and violence, suffering and death were the norm; a world

The Book of Psalms in the Old Testament served as the songbook or hymnal of God’s people Israel.  The Psalms represent the heart cries of God’s covenant people then as well as today.  They are cries to Him of praise and thanksgiving, cries of exultation in His law, cries for help in time of trouble,

Hope deferred makes the heart sick, …   Proverbs 13:12 Over the past couple of years there has been significant attention given in the media to an alarming increase of what are referred to as “deaths of despair”, which are defined as deaths by suicide or those associated with reckless alcohol or drug abuse.  Nearly 182,000

At the 2004 Democratic Party convention, a little know candidate for the Senate named Barak Obama delivered the keynote address which he titled The Audacity of Hope, a speech which later became a book titled The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream, which in 2006 became a New York Times best seller.

I love spell check.  If a word is not spelt (spelled) correctly or is a made-up word, you can just hit “add to dictionary” and voila, a new word is born. Just what is a coronavirusing, social justiceing, God ignoring world?  From a Biblical perspective, it is a world in which every person knows that