As one comes to Luke’s second chapter, we hear of the census, but only because it furnishes the reason for Joseph and his family to…
Today my mother is 98 years old. I wrote about her a couple of years ago in “Teach Us to Number Our Days.” In that…
Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of sinners, Nor sits in the seat…
The annunciation passages in Matthew and Luke are our first introduction to the way the Holy Spirit will pick up the threads of the OT…
We have heard it said that “Experience is the best teacher” to which I add, “especially when it is someone else’s experience.” That is, we…
Given the important abortion case before the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) this week, I thought I’d make some comments about the abortion issue. I’ll make…
Twice a week I sit with ten or more 17 and 18-year-olds and let them ask any question they want about the faith—freely—no question is…
Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. And a certain man lame from…
When someone sins against you, how should you fight your inner impulse to return evil for their evil? How can you respond without getting revenge?…
The 2004 movie The Village depicts a community completely sealed off from the outside world in order to protect its inhabitants from the dangers beyond,…
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD (Isaiah 55:8). Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever…
Typically, religious indifferentism espouses the idea that all religions and religious positions are equally valid. There is a modified version of this that affirms the…
Dr. Alexander Whyte of Edinburgh, Scotland, was famous for his pulpit prayers which always included words of thanksgiving. One stormy morning a member of the…
After a lengthy discussion of the need for and basis of justification by grace through faith in Christ (i.e., salvation or conversion), Paul now explains…
A Lesson in Maturity and Patience In Philippians 3:15, after a lengthy treatment discussing the supreme importance of following Jesus Christ, Paul writes, “Let those…
Two weeks ago, I quoted Beale’s History of Fundamentalism where Dr. Beale made the claim that Steve Pettit has led BJU into broader evangelicalism. I…
Years ago the God-Is-Dead Movement began. This theological position did not argue that God had died; it was more the idea that man had created…
Just days before Christmas of 1970, a package arrived at my home, addressed to me. As a child, of course, I received very little mail,…
Many of you have had the experience of visiting an aquarium or terrarium. In the aquarium tank, you may have seen divers go in to…
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