Cush Who?
In Second Peter 2, the inspired penman seeks to drive home the point that “the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment (v. 9). To prove this…
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The Holiness of the Holy, Holy, Holy God
A fundamental difference between the true and living God and the false gods of human imagination is that of Jehovah’s utter, uncompromising, pristine holiness. As pointed out by sociologists Christian Smith and Melinda Lundquist in their 2005 book Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives…
What Living by Faith Looks Like
One of Edgar Guest’s more famous poems begins with the line “I’d rather see a sermon.” Like sheep, humans need a leader to follow; like young students in school, humans need a pattern to imitate. When Jesus was asked “Who is my neighbor?”…
One of God’s “Nicknames”
There is no Bible book that has any more frequent and more picturesque descriptions of God than does the book of Psalms. Such metaphors as shield, rock, refuge, shelter, fortress, stronghold, shepherd, light, defense, hiding place lavishly nourish a hungry, meditative soul. Because…
Divine Advice
One of the heinous and arrogant absurdities of postmodernism is its insane postulate that truth and reality are whatever one choses to believe them to be. What philosophical and metaphysical nonsense! Much like the name of God (Exodus 3:14), reality is what it…
God’s Response to His Unpopularity
Unlike frail humanity, Jehovah is not fazed by white-hot hatred. While civil rulers and multitudes of their citizens chafe at Jehovah’s sovereignty and resent Christ’s universal authority (Matthew 28:18), their plotting and scheming to break away from the immutable chains of the moral…
Why is the God Who so Loved the World so Hated?
Long before the loving and innocent Son of God was taken by the hands of lawless men and brutally crucified, David (according to Acts 4:25) asked the same question in Psalm 2:1–“Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing?” …
Earthly Beings with Heaven’s Point of View
Some of the best advice I have ever received was told to me shortly after I entered college: In every month that has 31 days read one chapter a day from the book of Proverbs. In two days, we begin the month of…
A Fundamental Message of the Psalms
Life has its seasons. In nature there has been a continuous cycle of seedtime and harvest, cold and hot, winter and summer (Genesis 8:22) since the completion of the flood. Send article as PDF
Beatitudes in the Psalms
The book of Psalms begins with a beatitude and concludes with a thunderous chorus of praise for God (Psalms 146-150). Between these two terminal points, the blessed are described in the following ways: Send article as PDF