The secular fascination with the year 2000 is a marvel. This date is an utterly arbitrary human invention unless one is a Christian! Only Christians really believe that jesus Christ is the central and pivotal point of human history. Only Christians properly measure time as B.C. (Before Christ) and A.D. (Anno Domini, in the year […]
Upon invitation I attended a Safe group meeting, not to speak but to listen. To go somewhere just to listen is not so easy for a preacher. Preachers tend to speak. But I was invited to listen. Listen, I did—listened and learned, and was moved to tears. Safe is a group of sisters in the […]
The New Jersey Supreme Court’s ruling that the Boy Scouts must admit homosexuals because scouting is a public entity, like police and fire departments, is flawed on legal and moral grounds. Chief Justice Deborah Poritz dismissed assertions by the Boy Scouts that words in the Scout Oath which speak of “morally straight” and “clean” constitute […]
I have never met a believer who was saved by simply watching someone’s life. To be saved, men must hear and believe the verbal testimony about Jesus Christ. The Bible teaches that “faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ” (Rom. 10:17). However, I have met hundreds of people who made their […]
Resolutely Karen opened the door to the morgue. As private investigator it was her job to have a look at the bodies of murdered clients. This case boggled her. She had not been aware of any threats against Howard’s life. That made her trip to the clinic of death all the more pressing. Weighing possible […]
Revelation 9:1–12 Once when I was about nine, I insisted on accompanying my parents to hear a Dutch professor speak. He was to lecture on the last things. All I really wanted was to escape an early bedtime. After appropriate devotions and an introduction the professor began to speak. Well do I remember his opening […]
Revelation 9:12–21 The first “woe” has passed in visionary form! Now we are to learn about the second. It is a war the like of which has never been described on the pages of history. War, of course, has been endemic since the beginning. Satan started it by attacking the Lord God and the race, […]
Revelation 10:1–11 With the apostle we have stood at the boundary between time and eternity. The fifth and sixth trumpets have sounded. Now we think ourselves prepared to learn about the final judgment. Surely sin can not sink to any lower depths than the stubborn impenitence and rebellion acted out by mankind in the face […]
By the time you read this the September 1999 headlines of the terrible massacre at Wedgewood Baptist Church in Fort Worth Texas, will be old news. Nevertheless seven Christians are dead. Gunman Larry Ashbrook shouted profanity and mocked the belief of these Christians. He could have walked into a 7-eleven or Quick Stop just as […]
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.” Psalm 111:10a Decisions. Every day of your life, you’re faced with many of them. Small decisions about whether to buy CocaCola or the cheaper no-name brand. Big decisions about whether to buy a new car or keep the old one for another three years. Decisions […]