As Paul said goodbye to his friends from Ephesus at the seaport town of Miletus on the Mediterranean Sea, about 37 miles from their home, he shared a number of touching thoughts with them. They had made their way to his side expressly for the purpose of visiting with him and hearing from him one […]
In the life of the Christian Sacred Scripture can sometimes prove itself to be a pesky irritant, and even at times an absolute nuisance! At the very moment that we become comfortable with ourselves as we are, and get to feeling complacent, we read some text from the Bible that just knocks us right off […]
All of us need some personal time occasionally, and by that I mean time to spend alone with God. We cannot have that when the rush of the world is whirling about around us. We have to get away. Not necessarily far away, mind you. But away from everything and everyone else. I was reminded […]
As Jesus looked upon the city of Jerusalem during his final week of earthly life, he wept at the sight of her, saddened by the many opportunities she had enjoyed throughout the many centuries of her existence. He knew that the Roman destruction of the city lay but forty or so years in the future […]
People are funny, even intriguing to psychoanalyze. It is difficult to figure them out sometimes. They will say the most inexplicable things when they have a mind not to accept something. A case in point is the king of Judah, whose name was Zedekiah. He was the last king of that nation. God sent Jeremiah […]
One of the truly mighty battles of the Old Testament that I have seldom heard any mention of was one that occurred in the reign of the righteous king of Judah named Jehoshaphat. It is recorded in 2 Chronicles chapter 20, and took place in the region of Tekoa, in the wilderness adjacent to that […]
One of the most lovely statements in all of Holy Scripture is found in Philippians 1:23, “For I am hard-pressed between the two, having a desire to depart and be with Christ, which is far better…” Paul knew what he faced. Roman justice was swift and sure. And it was pitiless. A man who was a […]
Is it not interesting how at cross purposes with himself modern man is? You would think that with all of the many wonderful technological gadgets man has invented, and is able to deal with and “fix” so many of life’s seemingly intransigent problems, that he would have been able on some level at least to […]
The times we are living in are remarkable indeed. It is difficult for those of us who have a “biblical worldview” to conceive of the mindset we see about us these days and hear reflected in the speeches and deliberations of our peers. Only one aspect of that mindset interests us at this point, though, […]
All of us at times become impatient with how slowly some things move in life. It may be a line at the supermarket. We may be waiting for a tax refund check. Or it may be something as simple as the arrival of a newspaper in the morning when it is uncharacteristically late. My dog […]