A fool is a person whose plans end at the grave. “Be prepared!” Sound familiar? Those words are the Boy Scout motto. They are also good, simple advice for people in all walks of life. What happens if a student is not prepared for his exams, or if a mother is not prepared to feed […]
When the main business of business is His business. The front is not an easy place. There are soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan and other trouble spots around the world who will not only be in harm’s way, but who are as far away as you can get on the planet from family and friends. […]
“You too, be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.” (Lk. 12:40) About twenty years ago, as a new believer reading through the Bible for the first time, I came across a passage that puzzled me. Leviticus 25 speaks of the Year of Jubilee, with each person […]
“It is strange to be jealous over a God that you refuse to acknowledge exists.” I was born in Israel and grew up in Kibbutz Adamit, a small commune-type village in the Galilee. While I was born a Jew, I never thought much of the God of Israel. I was raised with many socialistic ideas, […]
“The Lord hath need of them” (Mt. 21:3). What an amazing statement! The One who made this statement is the same One who said, “If I were hungry, I would not tell thee: for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof” (Ps. 50:12). This is the same One who said, “Let there be light: […]
How can I know the Spirit of God is at work? Perhaps you’ve noticed that the Bible lists several different sins against the Holy Spirit: grieving, quenching, resisting and blaspheming, just to name a few. But I’d like to draw our attention to one sin against the Holy Spirit that isn’t specifically mentioned in Scripture: […]
The New Testament is rich with helpful ideas—if we know where to look. A good gardener of biblical ideals is not only occupied with truth’s flower but with the whole dynamic of growth from seed thought to full realization. We are often so attracted only by the colorful petals that reveal the mature teaching of […]
Moving our focus from self-satisfaction to pleasing God The opening words of Romans chapter 8 look back at what has been established in the first seven chapters of the epistle. The basic message of the gospel in those chapters was that the believer is justified when he exercises faith. That is, he is legally free […]
The horseshoe crab: Just lucky? The North American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is a real survivor. The standard evolution-based interpretation of fossil evidence is that horseshoe crabs have survived virtually unchanged for 445 million years despite living through times of massive geologic and environmental upheaval.1 Recently, some conservationists have claimed that the horseshoe crab may […]