Loud is the world in its various forms and cluttered is our landscape with signs and advertising. It’s so hard to escape the bombardment–and still we fill our quiet time with TV in our homes and the radio in our… Continue Reading →
Since God is eternal without time, then what we know of time from creation to consummation is the smallest speck of dust on forever. And yet, the humanists of our culture have cancelled creation to rid our existence of sin… Continue Reading →
As more see the current trends in our culture, George Orwell’s Animal Farm and 1984 have been selling well. What the Catholic apologist, Peter Kreeft, once said is quickly coming true: control language and you control thought; control thought and… Continue Reading →
Are those striving to live for God the problem in today’s world or those who have left His standard for their own? The wicked king Ahab tried to label the prophet Elijah a “troubler” but was quickly told that it… Continue Reading →
Last July, six year-old Bridger Walker threw himself in front of a mean dog to shield his little sister from certain death. After the dog tore open his face, he still got her to safety. When asked why he did… Continue Reading →
From Gethsemane through Calvary, we can see how Jesus, being fully man, became the source of eternal salvation to all who obey Him (Hebrews 5:7-9). Because of sin, man owed a debt to God he could not pay, so God… Continue Reading →
Loneliness was the first thing God found in His creation that was not good (Genesis 2:18). Today, it continues to be one of mankind’s biggest struggles and leads us to many sins, addictions, and negative coping mechanisms. Being fully man,… Continue Reading →
After the moral decline of Solomon’s reign and Reheboam’s unwise decision that split God’s people, his grandson, Asa, made a courageous move to rid Judah of its idolatry and return them to God (2 Chronicles 14). What will God do… Continue Reading →
For much of our nation’s history, Christians could float with the current of culture as it was going generally in the same direction we wanted to go. Christianity was ‘mainstream’–literally! But, several decades ago, while complacency and compromise with things… Continue Reading →
For many generations, the church in the West has been able to float lazily along on an inner tube because the current of culture was flowing in roughly the same direction. And so, we fell asleep, not realizing that in… Continue Reading →
In our relationship with God as in our earthly relationships, we would all insist that we love the other, but to what degree do we love? The transition to love for God begins when we recognize ourselves in the first… Continue Reading →
Writing just decades before the Northern Kingdom was taken into captivity, Amos attributed its decline to the sins of Jeroboam two centuries before (Amos 7:8-11). This is how any nation ends that doesn’t put God first. From a study Bible… Continue Reading →
An heir to his grandfather’s and father’s big legacies, Reheboam had a choice if he would seek God like they did or lean on his own understanding. Just as we cannot get to heaven on the coattails of another’s faith,… Continue Reading →
Since the second Person of the Godhead is eternal, what was Jesus doing from creation through incarnation? The Great Christology of Colossians 1:15-20 tells us quite a lot. Far from just arriving on the scene for the first time in… Continue Reading →
In the 1st century, those who had been with Jesus or witnessed the power of the resurrection of the dead had a difficult time believing that He had been a man. In the postmodern skepticism of the 21st century, many… Continue Reading →
In President Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1863, he told us to set apart and observe “a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.” Though secular culture has made the day about food, family,… Continue Reading →
Is it better to “grow up in the church” or to escape the world to seek truth on your own? The first may not know the sharp edge of the world’s heartache, but often a personal faith is taken for… Continue Reading →
After the wedding is over, who does the work in the marriage relationship? The answer is both … if the marriage is to be successful. So it must be when we enter into a relationship with Christ. The Bridegroom has… Continue Reading →
We often think that Jesus using a Samaritan, whom the Jews despised, to show kindness to a Jewish man was just to answer the question, “And who is my neighbor?” but the ‘And’ indicates that this parable goes much deeper. … Continue Reading →
At this time of year, the world puts forth all the things that it considers scary, but they all have to do with the first death, the separation of our souls from our bodies. No wonder that this experience and… Continue Reading →
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