Suffering for Sin

I recently posted an article about God's judgment (see it here). In that article I discussed in general a form of God's judgment on a world that rejects Him. He sometimes withdraws in judgment, allowing us to destroy ourselves. A troubling thing about this is when those faithful to God suffer alongside those responsible for bringing …

God’s Judgment

There's this belief in the world that God's judgment means great miraculous events like fire and brimstone raining from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 19:24), or inexplicable plagues of sickness and swarms of creatures and storms in sequence to destroy a nation's economy as happened to Egypt (Exodus 7-12), ... always something big and spectacular. But the greatest and most frightening of …

Standards of Measure

I feel sorry for the multitudes of religious folks out there. I really do. Take for example those Ephesian worshippers of “the great goddess Diana, and the image that fell down from Jupiter” (Acts 19:35). You can almost see the genesis of their religious dogma. Imagine a people who had already been worshipping the goddess …

I will draw all men

There are times when, in our zeal to get out and share the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, we neglect the very best “method” at our disposal. There are books in the stores which develop strategies for engaging people in conversation, for targeting or leading them through pointed questions, for how to hold their …

Babel and the Church

  Though human government is ordained by God to uphold law and order for the welfare of societies (Romans 13:1-4), God has obviously not always been pleased with what men have done (see Dan. 5; Acts 12:23). It's the same with church government. Just because God has ordained it doesn't mean He's always pleased with what men …

The Rainbow

The spring is upon us and with its sunshine and pleasant rains we are often treated to a special heavenly spectacle: the rainbow. Personally, I enjoy thinking about the science behind such natural phenomena as the rainbow. It's so interesting how all those tiny raindrops act like a prism and the sunlight shines through and gets dispersed into all …

The Lord in the Wilderness (part 2)

Click here for The Lord in the Wilderness (part 1) In part 1 of this article it was discussed that the Lord's temptation in the wilderness was not a test to see whether or not he would succumb to the devil, but rather, it was to demonstrate to us that He wouldn't. In part 2, …

Amelia Mary

Meet Amelia Mary: This is my daughter. She's been alive for approximately 22 weeks at the time this ultrasound image was captured (4/24/2012). Isn't she beautiful? I'm quite sure she's smiling at me, too. She is my eighth child. My first two children are with the Lord and my seventh child is with the Lord. Amelia is …

The Lord in the Wilderness (part 1)

Matthew 4:1-11 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights, He was afterward an hungred. And when the tempter came to Him, he said, "If thou be the Son of God, command that these stones be …

Knowing the Objective

When each of my children reached a certain age they all learned to play checkers. Although my seven-year-old daughter can beat me fair and square now, back then none of them were much of a challenge. I mean, seriously. I could crush them with my eyes tied behind my back. ... So to keep it interesting for myself, I …