What scriptures come to mind?
A legitimate criticism of churches is that too often they scratch where no one is itching. We have focused on old things such as ancient history and primitive theology without relating to the...
View ArticleFollowers are converted by example, not violence
II Kings 10-11 tells the story of Jehu rounding up 70 sons/family members of wicked King Ahab and Queen Jezebel and beheading them.Ahab and Jezebel had already been killed, but for trying to eradicate...
View ArticleJoseph in Egypt, Social Security
A young lawyer and insurance agent called me after attending an insurance convention. He wanted to tell me about a minister speaking to them comparing Joseph in Egypt nearly 4,000 years ago.A fabulous...
View Article'Lives of quiet desperation'
“Most people live lives of quiet desperation,” said Henry Thoreau in colonial days.Would he say today, “Most people live lives of screaming desperation”?The 70th anniversary of Auschwitz and the...
View ArticleGood and bad decision-making
I was one of the 140 million people engrossed in the Super Bowl last weekend when Seattle decided to pass from the 1-yard line.If Russell Wilson’s pass had been caught for a Seattle touchdown, folks...
View ArticleOur fortunes restored
So much bad news. Is there any good news?Can almighty God save and straighten out the mess this world is in with man’s inhumanity to man and nature’s terror by ice and snow and storms?I’ve even...
View ArticleReligion opposing evil
To many, Hitler has been a religious enigma. It is believed by many that the influence of the father on a child is the determining factor on how strong or weak shall be that child’ s religious...
View Article'We have the mind of Christ'
The mind is a terrible thing to waste. The mind is a wonderful thing when focused on Christ. The mind is something we can set and constantly improve in lifelong learning.To have a mind like Dr. Albert...
View ArticleTaking stock of 'life's extras'
I keep on my desk a book by Archibald Rutledge given to my father in 1950. It is entitled “Life’s Extras” and, indeed, my Dad’s friendship with this Jewish lawyer was one of his life’s great...
View ArticleThe good news in bad news
There is so much bad news today, most of us in desperation express a desire that someone start broadcasting some good news. Truth is that there is good news in bad news, for at least a problem has been...
View ArticleThe ages of Ichabod
One of the saddest moments in the history of Israel was when the sons of Eli took the Ark of the Covenant out to battle without the Lord’s permission and Israel was defeated, the Ark was lost and the...
View ArticleWhere Christianity, Islam agree and disagree
Islam is a distorted copy of many things Jewish and Christian, but the world is in mortal danger due to our differences.Judaism, Christianity and Islam all agree there is one God who controls the...
View ArticleThe greatest truth we can know
What we thought would be once-in-a-lifetime tour of the Holy Land and Europe in 1969 turned out to be such an inspiration that 14 more trips to the Holy Land came about.We first landed in Egypt and for...
View Article'Love life and see good days'
I Peter 3:10-12 gives us a magnificent secret of life.In that passage, Peter advises, “He that would love life and see good days, let him keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking guile; let...
View ArticlePallbearers of heaven and earth
Two weeks ago, my wife of 64 years was mercifully released from more than four years of debilitating Alzheimer’s disease.The funeral was so meaningful in so many ways. It is right that I stop and...
View Article
