The hand of God is seen among the nations and is seen in the well-known verse in Proverbs 21:1. In today's Light on Life, we will look at the phrase 'the hand of the Lord' and how it applies to the rulers of the nations.

What Is God's Response to the Gay Lifestyle? And the follow-up question to that is what should your response be as a child of God to this lifestyle choice. God's Response to the Gay Lifestyle that's our focus on this week's Light on Life.

Robert Schuller relays this family story about the issue of total trust. In his words, he says, "One problem I remember was a time when our son Bob broke our trust and lied to his mother and me. There was a real scene between us. He had violated our trust; it was like a crack in a fine cup that marred its appearance. In the confrontation, I smashed a fine English teacup on the floor and told Bob that to restore our trust would be like gluing that cup back together again. He said, "I don't know if I can do that." And I said, "Well, that's how hard it is to build confidence and trust again." The outcome was that Bob spent literally weeks carefully gluing the pieces together until he finished. He learned a very important lesson. There are lessons here in this story that help us in understanding what it means to follow Jesus. Believing and then abiding in Him means total trust all the time. Robert's son violated that parental trust and it caused a momentary 'crack' in their relationship. Continuing in the words of your Father God, builds an intact trust.

In last week's podcast, entitled 'Why Believing and Abiding Is the Key to the Happy Life,' we began to focus on what believing and abiding in Jesus really means. We saw that to 'believe' means to entrust oneself to an entity in complete confidence, with the implication of total commitment to the one who is trusted. We understood that 'abiding' means to continue in a certain state, condition, or activity. And, that when you weave these concepts together you come up with total commitment - total time. That is that God wants you to trust Him all the way all the time for your entire life. In this podcast, we pick-up where we left off last week as we continue to hone in on what Jesus meant when He said, if you abide in me, you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. More of why believing and abiding is the key to a happy life. That's our focus on this week's Light on Life.

Missionary pioneer J. Hudson Taylor of China was working and worrying so frantically that his health was about to break. Just when his friends feared he was near a breakdown, Taylor received a letter from fellow missionary John McCarthy that told of a discovery McCarthy had made from John 15—the joy of abiding in Christ. Believing and abiding is the key to the happy life. That's our focus on this week's Light on Life.

At roughly 11:05 PM on Christmas Eve, in the year 2001, while at work my wife Sharon suffered a brain aneurysm. You can find Sharon's account of her anguishing life-changing trial in this post "How God Miraculously Brought Me through A Brain Aneurysm." This podcast is my version of that same day, the same ordeal, the same life-changing distress. The same miraculous deliverance.

D.L. Moody said about the I AM's of Jesus that it was his favorite way to study the Bible. In today's podcast, we take a further look at some of the I AM's of Jesus and how they help us live our everyday lives.

What does your testimony of Jesus look like? Is it clothed in the latest the world has to offer? Some people's testimony is under-dressed. A rather pompous-looking deacon was endeavoring to impress upon a class of boys the importance of living the Christian life. "Why do people call me a Christian?" the man asked. After a moment's pause, one youngster said, "Maybe it's because they don't know you." I guess he said ouch instead of Amen. What would others say your testimony of Jesus is? That's a good question to ask and respond to and that's our focus on this week's Light On Life.

Light versus darkness. Good versus evil The good guys versus the bad guys. The age-old theme has been on stage since the opening act of Eden. I mean what more can be said that hasn't already been written, talked about, or had movies made out of? The theme goes back to the no-contest conflict between the Most High God and Satan. There must be something to it because Jesus puts the spotlight on it yet again in John eight. How to Overcome Darkness by Following the Light of the World, that's our focus on this week's Light on Life.

Surveys show that 22% of married men have committed an adulterous act at least once in their life. That number is 14% for married women. 90% of American believes it is morally wrong to commit an adulterous act. In the United States, 17% of all the divorces that occur are due to adultery on the part of either or both the parties. What does Jesus think about all this? He shows His thoughts in an encounter He had with and adulterous women in John 8.