Picture this: People gathered together each week for one cause — clapping, singing, worshiping. They donate their hard-earned money, and their time, too, knowing they wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. Heaven, they believe, surely will be something like this. ...
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Crazy Voices Crying In The Wilderness
For the herald’s voice is crying / in the desert far and near, calling all to true repentance / since the kingdom now is here. —Johann Olearius, “Comfort, Comfort Ye My People” (1671) Alone of all the prophets, John ...
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The three centuries which followed the Macedonian conquest of Asia, from the death of Alexander the Great to the fall of the Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt, are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. —Peter Thonemann, The ...
Read More »Understanding Biblical Storytelling
Man is the image of God. He necessarily creates stories and enjoys them. —Greg Uttinger, “The Lord of the Rings: A Good Story” (2012) Deep comedy is a product of Christianity, a mark of resurrection life on the pages of ...
Read More »The Thanksgiving Blessing Almost Everyone Forgets
“You say, ‘If I had a little more, I should be very satisfied.’ You make a mistake. If you are not content with what you have, you would not be satisfied if it were doubled.” Charles Haddon Spurgeon How Do ...
Read More »The Bible, Slavery And ‘Jubilee’ Freedom
Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. —Inscription on the Liberty Bell (1752/3) This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears. —Jesus of Nazareth (AD 30) Jubilee Bond Servants The Mosaic Law permitted ...
Read More »The Bible, Slavery And The ‘Home-Born Slave’
Our Lord Jesus was so in love with his undertaking that he would not go out free from it, and therefore engaged to persevere for ever in it; and for this reason he is able to save us to the ...
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God’s word meets us where we are in our slavery, and shows us the way toward responsible stewardship. —David Chilton Poverty and Charity Scripture speaks plainly about the devastation wrought in this world by sin. It also speaks to us ...
Read More »What Does An ‘Eye For An Eye’ Really Mean?
I told them [the Texas legislature] that the only answer to the crime problem is to take nonviolent criminals out of our prisons and make them pay back their victims with restitution. —Chuck Colson, Transforming Our World (1988) But modern ...
Read More »Rise, the Woman’s Conquering Seed: An Easter Meditation
Bruise in us the serpent’s head. —Charles Wesley, Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (1739) If He did not rise, but is still dead, how is it that He routs and persecutes and overthrows the false god, whom unbelievers think to ...
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