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Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. I Pet 5:6 The Greeks had two words for time: ‘chronos’, meaning chronological time, and ‘kairos’, meaning a unique opportunity or moment— a time in between, a moment of indeterminate time in which something special happens. The Greeks […]
How is your memory? In Deuteronomy 8, God said, “And you shall remember the whole way that the Lord your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, testing you to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments or not. And he […]
Have you ever avoided serving the Lord because you were afraid of what a certain family member might say? Or have you served the Lord in secrecy because of what friends might say?Thirty years ago I brought a friend to church. He was twenty years old, and it was his first time in a Bible […]
Yesterday we talked about the damaging effects of an aliterate culture—where people can read, but don’t. Lured by an image-saturated and lust-craving media, without realizing it, Christians are amusing themselves to death. Not only is reading at an all-time low, but Bible knowledge among youth has decreased from 72% in the 1970s to just 4% […]
Mark Twain once famously quipped, “The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.” Twain concisely describes perhaps one of the greatest endemics of our time—aliteracy. Heralded as one of the marks of a primitive culture, illiteracy still may not be as grave a threat […]
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet. You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a […]
”But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you be not consumed by one another.” Galatians 5 One of mysteries in the animal kingdom is the extinction of the saber tooth tiger. Among scientist, there is little agreement on this animal. Some don’t think it was related to the tiger […]
In the book of Exodus, the children of Israel tested the Lord because they could not find water. In chapter 17 we read, “Therefore the people quarreled with Moses and said, ‘Give us water to drink.’ And Moses said to them, ‘Why do you quarrel with me? Why do you test the LORD?’ But the […]
In the beginning, God commanded Adam to tend the garden and to name the animals (Gen. 21:15, 19). Why were these the first two tasks given to Adam? As I contemplated Adam naming the animals and tending the garden, I began to realize that creation itself is a master teacher. Every aspect of creation speaks […]
When reading Matthew 24 recently, I thought I was reading the headlines in the newspaper. Jesus is speaking to his disciplines saying, “And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not alarmed, for this must take place, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation, […]