We always need to be ready. There is no time to lose. There is no room for negligence. Are you ready? There is an interesting little story in the Bible that Jesus tells about ten bridesmaids. Not a lot of people know this story, and rather than...
There are many truths of the Bible that are just plain hard to understand. Take the virgin birth as an example. How in the world is that possible? Another example is the Trinity. How is it that God can be One, yet Three? Another still is the Bible’s...
What more could we say about the desert experience? From cover to cover, the Bible tells us stories about the people of God going through the desert. The desert in the life of the believer is a symbol for the time of spiritual growth and testing...
This week I attended a missionary retreat in southern Georgia. During the retreat, the facilitators asked each attendee to share their life story. This is more or less the story of how you arrived at having a personal relationship with Jesus and...
Have you ever noticed that Israel has to go through the wilderness before they can inherit the Promised Land? As the story goes, Israel was delivered from slavery in Egypt, and the way out of Egypt was through the desert. The final destination was...
Last week I wrote about Genesis 1 and the role of memory and history as the foundation that creates a solid footing for growth in Christian maturity. Another feature, or theme of Genesis 1 is separation. In the creation account found in...
The first chapter of the first book of Bible (Genesis 1) records the story of how God created everything. This chapter details for us where we all come from. In fact, the very title of the book, “Genesis”, comes from a Greek word meaning...
There are so many wrong answers to the question, “Why does God allow evil in the world?” “Why did God allow the pains of hurricane Irma? Couldn’t he have stopped it?” Better yet, “Why did God allow an earthquake...
In the early part of the nineteenth century, Haiti’s King Henri Christophe built a massive fortress (the “Citadel”) on one of the highest mountain peaks a few miles from the northern coast of Haiti. The Citadel was a...
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