August 28, 2011
In a resent gathering, we watched a movie where a minister stressed the greatness and enormity of God, via astrology and God’s interest in our planet, and then in tinny insignificant man. It was breathtaking. Two texts reminded us of…
August 23, 2011
Jesus was on the way to be crucified. Women mourned and wailed over what was being done to an innocent and just man. Jesus turned and said to them, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep for yourselves…
August 18, 2011
The Bible has a number of covenants, but the one that ought to be of great interest to a nation such as ours is recorded in Deuteronomy Chapter Four. It was and still is “God’s roadmap for individuals and nations.”…
August 14, 2011
It is not a new idea for humans to sit in judgment over God. The human mind is capable of concocting the absurd. It thinks, it can measure the immensity of an energy that is invisible. How can a creature…
August 10, 2011
History teaches us that when politics separates from religion, demotion soon follows. The U.S.A. is in the process of being demoted to a second rate country by a new kind of progressivism. It began some time ago when her Judeo-Christian…
August 6, 2011
Jesus said to his disciple, I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields! They are ripe for harvest” (Jn.4: 35). Luther, along with Zwingli and Calvin were the beneficiaries of those that preceded them in seeding and…
August 3, 2011
Jesus confounded his generation when he said, “Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad.” (Jn.8: 57). Abraham has become the father of those that believe that God grants grace to…
July 27, 2011
The sound of “brotherhood” is music to our ears. There is much talk about all men being brothers. Then I remember reading about Cain and Able (Gen.4: 8) or what the prophet Amos said that the ordinance of brotherhood has…
July 24, 2011
I am intrigued by the history of Christianity (L.P. Qualben). It has not traveled a steady and straight road. It has been more like a roller coaster. It was most helpful during crisis. I was nine when Germany invaded Poland…
July 20, 2011
A hypochondriac complained constantly that he was sick enough to die. No one believed him. He purchased a cemetery plot, erected a headstone with the inscription, “Now You Believe Me.” The prophet Ezekiel wrote an epitaph against the King of…