I know. A few of you did your Christmas shopping during last January’s clearance. Your gift wrap—featuring Santa in Hawaiian shirts—was 75% off. For good reason! The majority of us, however, still like shopping closer to the event, with the sparkling lights, jingling bells, and festive camaraderie. As an old timer who’s shopped for almost […]
“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as real strength.” —Francis de Sales We now come to two unfamiliar but remarkable creatures. Behemoth is a land animal (Job 40:15-24); Leviathon is a sea creature. The word behêmôt is the plural form of an unused root, probably meaning “mute,” perhaps the origin of the […]
Read More… from December 25, 2025 — What The Gentle Giant Teaches
JESUS: “You shall call His name JESUS” (Mt 1:21). James Hastings writes: “We meet the name for the first time in Numbers 16:16, where we read that “Moses called Hoshea the son of Nun Joshua” (meaning “Jehovah is salvation”). Jesus and Joshua are the same name, only one is Greek and the other Hebrew. Joshua […]
“The Lord make the woman who is coming to your house like Rachel and Leah, the two who built the house of Israel; and may you prosper in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem. May your house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring which the Lord […]
How do we know the Lord Jesus is God? Note some key points. 1. The Old Testament promises that Messiah would be God in flesh: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given…and His name shall be called…The mighty God” (Isa 9:6). 2. The New Testament declares Him to be […]
Just the grass family includes over 11,500 accepted species. I suppose we still have things to learn! The Lord has been teaching Job specific lessons from specific creations. Earth’s foundations teach the reality of the invisible world (Job 38:4). The waves reveal that God has set limits on what happens in His world, not only […]
JESUS the ONE to KNOW: “By this we know love, because He laid down His life for us” (1 Jn 3:16). M.S. Braithwaite tells about a poor homeless waif, whose street name was “Little Broomstick.” She took sick one Christmas, and was taken to the hospital. While there she heard the story of Jesus coming […]
“And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory…” (Jn 1:14). A word is the embodiment of an idea. Throughout history, people had ideas about God, but now, says John, “we have heard,…we have seen with our eyes,…we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of […]
Holidays can be excellent, though often difficult, opportunities to reach out to relatives and friends who don’t know the Lord. Lonely people, international students—these were the kind of people, Jesus said, to invite to a “feast.” We should ask those who cannot recompense us, or invite us back (see Lk 14:13-14). I recall a life-changing […]