“My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed, and in Your book they all were written” (Ps 139:15-16). How well do people around us really know us? How well do we know […]
How do you respond to someone who says: “I’d like to be a Christian but I don’t think I can live that kind of life”? Robert J. Little responds, “Christians are not expected to live the Christian life in their own strength. No one could do this. Part of the experience of conversion to Christ […]
“Whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My name…will by no means lose his reward” (Mk 9:41). You know when you make a chart, and some things don’t fit any category? That may be 1 Chronicles 27:25-34! This is the column marked “Other.” It includes all sorts of responsible people from “Obil the Ishmaelite…over […]
“Now while Ezra was praying, and while he was confessing, weeping, and bowing down before the house of God, a very large assembly of men, women, and children gathered to him from Israel; for the people wept very bitterly” (Ezra 10:1). This hardly seems the path to popularity! Confessing? Don’t you lose your status and […]
D.L. Moody paid nine visits to the Civil War battlefront. One evening past midnight, he was called to visit a dying soldier. “He said, ‘I wish you to help me to die.’ ‘I would help you if I could,’ replied Moody. ‘I would take you on my shoulders and carry you into the kingdom if […]
One vital key of good leadership is knowing that every word and action has far-reaching consequences. David had seen to the ordering of priests and Levites—the religious leaders; the gatekeepers and treasury guards—the national security leaders; and “the captains of thousands and hundreds and their officers” (1 Chron 27:1)—the military leaders. But there is still the necessary […]
Read More… from October 2, 2024 — Tribal Chiefs & State Officials
“Indeed these are the mere edges of His ways, and how small a whisper we hear of Him!” (Job 26:14). The theater of Aspendos is one of the best-preserved in the Roman world. Built from 161-169 AD in Lycia (modern Turkey), an area visited briefly by Luke and Paul as recorded in Acts 27, the […]
Charles Darwin wrote: “To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree” (Origin of Species, 1859, […]