Grave New World?
It's a moot point that the 21st century begins on January 1, 2001, not 2000. In fact, due to the mixup in changing to the Gregorian calendar from the Julian in 1582, we've actually been in the new millennium for...
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Standing on Their Shoulders
To acknowledge indebtedness to our Christian forebears does not mean that we are engaging in ancestral worship. We should not erect shrines to the dead, but in many ways we are indebted to them and enriched by their legacy. Still,...
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Equal Yet Different
From India came the old stories about the juggernaut, the massive cart that carried weighty idols, and as it crunched the cobblestone roads, would occasionally crush a stumbling pedestrian. Here in the West we have seen something like the old...
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Great Expectations
The coming millennium is a strange mix of the Beginning and the End. It proffers scientific breakthroughs, communication at lightning speed, perhaps greater length of life--mixed blessings at best. We sympathize with T. S. Eliot: "Man is advancing progressively backwards."...
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Long Range Weather Predictions
Someone has maliciously said that it would be about as worthwhile if the weatherman theorized the stock market trends, and the financial guru tried predicting the weather. Of course we will not attempt either. What then? Many Bible students find it...
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I Don’t Care for Daisies, Either
Last month we considered Calvinism's view of salvation, forming the acrostic T-U-L-I-P. But someone has observed that Arminians have a flower, too--the daisy: "He loves me; He loves me not...." This refers to the question in the fifth Arminian point...
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Nicodemus: A Case Study
Being by birth a Jew and as such being entitled to all the privileges of a son of Abraham, it must have perplexed Nicodemus to be told that he must be born again to see the kingdom of God. This...
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A Hard Lesson to Learn
The Bible does not need to reveal the fact that man is a sinner. But it discloses just how grim is the prognosis. Observe the names of sins. In Numbers 15, a distinction is given between "sins of ignorance" and...
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Ears to Hear
The following story is true. Only the name has been changed--to protect the guilty! Harold is an avid reader. Whether the Bible, a newspaper or book, you could always find him in his favorite chair in the living room reading. In...
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