
Christian growth is downward – not upward
Christian growth is downward. Not upward. Not soaring. As I read my daily Bible readings, Jacob’s wife, Rachel, dies while giving birth to Benjamin (Gen. 35:18 f.). Then I go to Psalm 12. “On every side, the wicked prowl, as vileness is exalted among the children of man,” (12:8). It gets better; it surely does. The assigned Mark 14 readings








