Here’s one of life’s ironies. On November 15, 2017, Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud purchased Leonardo da Vinci’s painting titled “Salvator Mundi” for a record-breaking $450.3 million. Why ironic? The world’s most expensive painting, owned at various times by three of England’s kings, is now the possession of the Royal House […]
Isn’t it remarkable? A man living first in a palace, then in a desert, has the same prayer requests you do! We now begin Book IV in the Psalms. Being “A Prayer of Moses the man of God,” Psalm 90 is perhaps the oldest in the Psalter, 500 years before David. Psalm 91, continuing the theme of […]
CHRIST INCORRUPTIBLE: “Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible…be honor and glory forever and ever” (1 Tim 1:17). The word aphthartos, here translated “immortal,” is found 7x in the NT, and in all instances should be translated “incorruptible.” Paul records the sad history of humanity that “changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an […]
“Revive me according to Your lovingkindness, so that I may keep the testimony of Your mouth” (Ps 119:88). We have already looked at this prayer for personal revival in verses 25, 37, and 40 of this amazing psalm. And we’ll see it again in verses 107, 149, 154, 156, and 159. NINE times David requests […]
Chuck Colson, one-time “hatchet man” for President Nixon, was being interviewed by an Australian radio host. With just 20 seconds left, the host asked, “Mr. Colson,…the goals most people strive their whole lives for, you have achieved—only to see it collapse as you fell from the White House to prison. But now you’re out, leading […]
The whole world awaits the restoration of the rightful Heir to the throne. Come, blessed King! Like the distinction in the New Testament between the ideal position of the believer in Christ and the less-than-ideal condition of the believer still in this evil world, in Psalm 89 Ethan gives both the glorious description of the Davidic Covenant and the […]
CHRIST the PARADOX: “As deceivers, and yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying, and behold we live; as chastened, and yet not killed; as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things” (2 Cor 6:8-10). Explain it, if you can: “it is […]
“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.… For each one shall bear his own burden” (Gal 6:2, 5). Alexander Smellie, chronicler of the Scottish Covenanters, tells of one of Christ’s noblemen imprisoned by Claverhouse on lonely Bass Rock. The motto on his coat of arms read, Sub pondere cresco: “I grow […]
Dr. Gerald McKibben comments on the current argument that the degree of similarity between the DNA of men and chimpanzees supposedly proves the evolutionary link between humans and apes: “God used DNA and RNA as the backbone of His genetic blueprints for all organisms, from one-celled ones to the great blue whale. He did not […]