Nothing like the Sermon on the Mount has produced so much interest in study and yet so much apathy in practice. There we find famous saying like, “Blessed are the poor in spirit,” “You are the salt of the earth,” “Love your enemies,” “Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Your name,” “You cannot serve two […]
“Therefore, to you who believe, He is precious; but to those who are disobedient, “The stone which the builders rejected has become…a rock of offense” (1 Pet. 2:8). Jesus defines the word skandalon, translated in 1 Peter 2:8 as offense, in Matthew 16:23: “But He turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan! You […]
“This is the ‘stone which was rejected by you builders, which has become the chief cornerstone’.” Acts 4:11 Imagine if you were told that there was a song written about you centuries before you were even born? To add mystery and intrigue, this song discloses intimate details surrounding your death. In the last night of […]
There will never be an overthrow of Christ’s kingdom. The stone will smash all opposition to His rule. He was the most powerful leader of the world at the time, but he couldn’t sleep. So Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, was willing to hear from one of his conquered captives: a man named Daniel. Daniel was […]
It was just another day at the office, in the classroom, in the home, and at the neighborhood grocery. Nothing out of the ordinary, that is, until the office began to shake, and the employees began to jump and run for the door; books fell from the library shelves in the classroom. In the home, […]
I was having a Bible teaching series in Vancouver, BC, and was staying at Scott and Ruth Banford’s home. One morning, I was out enjoying their beautiful gardens. They had an old Japanese gardener who kept the place picture-perfect, including a greenhouse filled with exotic orchids. Just then, I saw two men approaching. I guessed […]
In our last article, Scott Thomson looked briefly at the main points relating to online purity. In this article, we will focus on some tools that can help us to avoid and resist pornography. A CAUTION There is a danger in relying on tools too much so that when we are left without them, we […]
Most people might not realize just how much the efforts of missionaries have governed the column of human progress. Whether it is hospitals and good health, schools and better education, or sound doctrine and civil liberty—those who carry the gospel to distant lands have left their mark on history. Missionary work has done more for […]
Curious visitors to the Old City of Jerusalem will find an unadorned opening in the northern wall about 500 feet east of the Damascus Gate. The low entry leads to a massive series of caverns, approximately 330 feet wide and 650 feet deep. You have entered what is often called Solomon’s Quarries. What is this […]