Then the Lord said to Moses, “I will rain down bread from heaven for you.  The people are to go out each day and gather enough for that day…No one is to keep any of it till morning.” However, some of them paid no attention… they kept part of it until morning, but it was
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In the desert the whole community grumbled against Moses and Aaron.  The Israelites said to them, “If only we had died by the Lord’s hand in Egypt! There we sat around pots of meat and had all the food we wanted, but you have brought us out into this desert to starve the entire assembly
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Learning to read the Bible in the present is the key to the prophetic faith.  All of us gathered here today stand at Sinai…Fleeing into the desert from Pharaoh, the escaped slaves covenanted to become a free people by living in a way that established justice as a communion that the moralities of slaves and
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At the heart of the Holy Bible lies a unique revelation:  That the world in general, and the Church in particular, is involved in a spiritual battle of cosmic proportions. –Alan Morrison, The Serpent and the Cross (1994) History in Perspective Secular humanism sees history as the expansion and development of impersonal matter through linear time—or in the midst of infinite, but bounded, space-time.  Pantheism sees history as an illusion, an unreality that the mind or soul must, in the end, reject.  For both positions there is a dreary sameness to reality, both ontologically and
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“Surely the land where your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance and your children’s forever, because you have wholly followed the Lord my God.” – Joshua 14:9 In his book, In His Image, Dr. Paul Brand writes about his mother. She was seventy-five years old and still walking miles every day, visiting the villages in the southern part of India, teaching the people about Jesus. Then one day, she fell and broke her hip. After two days of lying there in pain, some workers finally found her and put her on a makeshift cot.
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Let sense be numb, let flesh retire; Speak through the earthquake, wind, and fire, O still, small voice of calm!  —J. G. Whittier, “The Brewing of Soma” (1872) It is the inward man that must be reached, and he can only be reached by the power of the Word of God, energized by the Holy Spirit.  —C. W. Powell, Jr., A Basket of Figs (1994) From Triumph to Despair The fire fell from heaven.  It devoured the sacrifice, the altar, and the water in the trench around it (1 Kings 18).  The crowd who witnessed
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“Then David said to the Philistine, ‘You come to me with a sword, with a spear, and with a javelin. But I come to you in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the LORD will deliver you into my hand … that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel. Then all this assembly shall know that the LORD does not save with sword and spear; for the battle is the Lord’s, and He will give you
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Nature is all that IS, or WAS, or EVER WILL BE. —The Berenstain Bear’s Nature Guide (1975) Nature Worship The twentieth century saw the rebirth of nature worship in the West.  Nature has been promoted in the realms of both science and religion.  This is because both materialism and pantheism assume the fundamental unity of reality.  In Carl Sagan’s words, “The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be.”  Materialists and pantheists differ on the nature of the cosmos—matter vs. spirit— but they are alike convinced that nothing exists outside the
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Conspiracy and writing about conspiracy seems to be one of mankind’s major activities. —Neal Wilgus, The Illuminoids (1978) A conspiracy has power to the degree that it speaks to the prevailing beliefs and hopes of the day. —Rousas J. Rushdoony, Roots of Reconstruction (1991) Who’s Calling the Shots? Once we understand how much our political system, our schools and universities, and the mainstream media are opposed to Christ, we can easily become jaded about everything we hear from these sources.  We expect their minions to lie, distort, and spin on principle.  We see concerted efforts
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Every revolution needs slogans.  Here is mine:  politics fourth. —Gary North, Political Polytheism (1989) Real change has to start with the culture.  All we can do on Capitol Hill is try to find ways government can nurture healthy cultural trends. —Bill Wichterman in Nancy Pearcey’s Total Truth (2005) In the Corridors of Power The famine was six months into its fourth year.  The streams were dry.  The grass was dead.  The horses and mules were starving.  King Ahab and his steward Obadiah divided the land and began a search for some sort of water, some
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