What is Man?
Anthropology is a field of study that seeks to better understand the human race and what is means to be human. Its purpose is to answer the same question that David asked about 3,000 years ago. What is man? Send article as…
Author: jchowning
The Excellency of God
A fundamental challenge of every human being is to strive to develop a healthy and accurate understanding of the Being described in Scripture whose name is Jehovah. When David twice exclaims “How excellent is Thy name in all the earth!” (Psalm 8:1, 9),…
Selah
For God’s word to exercise its transforming impact, one’s mind must be renewed—renovated or remodeled to think differently (Romans 12:2). This does not “just happen” when one reads the Scriptures. It occurs when a Bible student reads and intentionally digests the sweeter-than-honey…
How to Read a Superscription
Many of the great hymns in history have a back story. Such beloved songs as “Let the Lower Lights be Burning” and “When Peace Like a River” arose from tragic circumstances. Send article as PDF
Harvester or Storm Watcher
Who of us enjoys instability? Who gets thrilled over the prospect of a ladder, a bridge, a foundation, a home, a marriage, a job, a stock market, or a national government that is unstable? Why bother to take the risk? Send article as PDF…
There’s only Two
There are a number of things in life in which there genuinely are only two options. Political correctness and postmodernism notwithstanding, there are in fact only two sexes. Like the wild and domesticated animals that populate the earth, the fish and other creatures that fill…
Blessed vs. Lucky
One of the insidious effects of evolution is that it inherently spawns an immense and false faith in luck and blind chance. If it is true that in the beginning nothing did nothing to nothing and everything resulted therefrom, then luck and chance are the…
Characteristics of a Righteous Person
One of the salvific purposes of God’s grace is to instruct and motivate righteous living (Titus 2:11-12). Psalm 1:1-3 gives an inspired portrait of a righteous person. Here it is written: “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly nor…
God Speaking to us and for us
Throughout my years of daily Bible reading which have taken me through both testaments every year, I must confess that I have not found the reading of the book of Psalms to be nearly as meaningful as others have. Until recently. In a Bible…