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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 ...

Between 1776 in 1850, the American frontier opened up. Colonists first expanded out as far as Appalachia and then pushed the frontier to the Mississippi River. In 1850, American pioneers pushed the edge of settlement to Texas, the Southwest, and ...

Our choices seem to be between a man who hopes to be a god and one who thinks he already is one. —Pastoral prayer, November 3rd 2012 …To withhold your contempt from men’s vices is an act of moral counterfeiting, ...

“But what about these Tree-men, these giants as you might call them?” —Sam Gamgee in Lord of the Rings (1954) The First Fantasy Story Abimelech had slaughtered all of Gideon’s sons, all but one—a young man named Jotham.  When the ...

“Jael’s actions are not only deviant and violent but socially revolutionary…” —Daniel Block, Judges (1999) “I’ve got two guns in my hand—is it okay to shoot him if he comes in this door?” the young mother asked the 911 dispatcher.  ...

I say, put him to death, executed by the judgments of God upon him, as an implacable enemy to God and Israel. —Matthew Henry, Commentary (1708) Bible Stories You Never Heard Sunday school isn’t always the best place to learn ...

This year marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the Authorized Version of Scripture, the King James Bible. Of course, King James Stuart of England didn’t do the translating. He did, however, arrange for one of the most skilled, educated group of translators ever assembled to translate the Old and New Testaments from the Hebrew and Greek. This translation project had been suggested by Puritan leaders, together with a number of other reforms, but James acted only on this one. His motives for ordering and ...

When President Obama had to restate his oath the day after his inauguration, a good deal was made of the fact that a Bible wasn’t used during the do-over. In fact, two other Presidents did not use Bible during their ...

To hold one’s own life as one’s ultimate value, and one’s own happiness as one’s highest purpose are two aspects of the same achievement. —Ayn Rand, “The Objectivist Ethics” (1964) We are not our own… —John Calvin, The Institutes of ...

“The future’s uncertain and the end is always near.” Jim Morrison “I confess my error and acknowledge my disappointment, yet I still believe that the day of the Lord is near.” —William Miller, leader of the Adventist movement (1844) The ...