“After that whole generation had been gathered to their fathers, another generation grew up, who knew neither the LORD nor what he had done for Israel.” – Judges 2:10
Jim Palmer started a church in Brentwood, Tennessee in the 1990s. But two events brought him to question his faith. The first was a revelation that a staff member was beating a spouse. The second came when a mother-to-be, bolstered by Palmer's sermons that anything is possible with God if you have enough faith, believed her unborn child with a fatal disorder could survive. The infant died soon after birth, and the mother blamed herself.
"That triggered, 'How can I preach this stuff?'" Palmer said. "Beneath the appearance and the surfaces of people's lives, there was a level of suffering and brokenness for which my theology did not touch." Those cataclysmic moments more than two decades ago sent Palmer down an introspective path that led to him leaving the ministry, the end of his marriage, and the eventual realization that he no longer believed in the supernatural. He founded the Nashville chapter of the American Humanist Association and no longer believes in God.
Knowing Jesus and having a deep personal relationship with Him needs to be our first priority in life. Today in prayer, thank Jesus that He saved you and you can know Him better.
“They that deny a God, destroy man's nobility: for certainly man is of kin to the beast by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.” – Francis Bacon
God’s Word: “Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.” – Galatians 4:8
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