It was a bright, summer day. A fellow preacher and myself were travelling in a country where neither one of us had been. We both took turns at the wheel as we drove mile after mile on gravel and dirt roads from one remote town to another. Eventually we followed a road we believed would...Continue reading
Linus and Lucy are staring out a window. Outside is a heavy downpour. Lucy asks the question, “Boy, look at it rain… what if it floods the whole world?” Linus answers, “It will never do that… In the ninth chapter of Genesis God promised Noah that would never happen...
Judas Iscariot killed himself out of overwhelming despair, disappointment and self-disgust. He had committed the worst sort of action and he hated himself for it. He betrayed the Christ and there is no amount of despondency or self-pity which can change that fact. Judas did what he did, and it is set in reality. A...Continue reading
I was six years old and my best friend was Tim. We were both in Mrs. Jones’ first grade class and we had fun. We learned how to correctly open a half-pint carton of milk – the default drink. We had a mandatory nap in the afternoon followed by drawing time (not a bad lifestyle)....Continue reading
Every group opposed to God joins itself together against Jesus. In the first century there were such notables as: the Pharisees (Matthew 9:34), Sadducees (Mark 12:18), scribes (Luke 9:22), chief priests (John 11:57), elders of the people (Matthew 26:3), Herodians (Mark 3:6), lawyers (Luke 7:30), and rulers (John 12:42). These groups were powerful and resourceful....
1 Corinthians 11:17-19 Now in giving these instructions I do not praise you, since you come together not for the better but for the worse. For first of all, when you come together as a church, I hear that there are divisions among you, and in part I believe it. For there must also be...Continue reading
It is a part of American history. On Sunday October 30, 1938 at 8:00 PM (EST) thousands of people tuned their radios to the most popular show of the day: the “Chase and Sanborn Hour” staring Edgar Bergen. At about twelve minutes into the hour, the program went into the musical section of the show. Most...
Revelation 14:13 Then I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, “Write: ‘Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.’” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, and their works follow them.” The Holy Spirit is responsible for sending us the Biblical text from thousands of years....Continue reading
Proverbs 14:12 There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death. Proverbs 16:25 There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death. Those words are repeated in Proverbs for a reason. When a man thinks he...
God is not subject to time, but He regards it as existing. But, beloved, do not forget this one thing, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day (2 Peter 3:8). God knows the difference between a day and a thousand years otherwise He could...