October 11

Confucianism: The insistence that human beings are perfectible through personal and communal endeavor. The main religious belief of China looks back to Confucius (the anglicized form of Kunk Fu-tzu, or Kung the Master) about 1000 years after Moses. Confucianism is an optimistic humanism that assumes man is basically good, being opposed to the biblical doctrine […]

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October 11, 2024 — 2 Chronicles

Going through trials, God’s sovereignty is the pillow upon which you lay your head. —C.H. Spurgeon  This second half of the Chronicles first draws our attention to the reign of the newly-crowned Solomon, who takes us to the height of Israel’s glory. The book then shifts to the other focal point, the soon-to-be-built temple. As […]

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October 10, 2024 — Finally…

Tending sheep, he killed a lion; delivering victuals, he fought a giant; serving God, he found greatness.  We’re about to say goodbye to David, at least in this historical account. “Thus David the son of Jesse reigned over all Israel. And the period that he reigned…was forty years…So he died in a good old age, full […]

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