Matchmaker, Matchmaker Don’t Burn Me.

It was 1976 when I saw the movie “Fiddler on the Roof” for my first time in our drama class. One of the songs is called “Matchmaker” and it was a standing tradition to pre-arrange marriages between families in the Jewish culture. A person within the community made the suggestions and arranged the couples to marry. Love at first sight was not possible the parents had gone through the same thing themselves. As odd as the system may have sounded it worked.  Love is a choice not some feeling though feelings of love eventually enter in to prearranged marriages,  it is not always the giggles and cuteness. It is about caring for another individual. When I became a Christian I came to believe in the divine province of relationship, when Cupid is not busy pulling Santa’s sleigh around he usually does a great job with Christian couples.  Prior to giving my life to Christ,… Read moreMatchmaker, Matchmaker Don’t Burn Me.

Does God Hate the Devil?

Job 1:6-12 (6)  Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan also came among them. (7)  And the LORD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it. (8)  And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? (9)  Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, Doth Job fear God for nought? (10)  Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land. (11)  But put forth… Read moreDoes God Hate the Devil?