Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 1 Thessalonians 5:6 Sleeping is part of God’s wonderful plan for our lives. God created the body with the need to recharge, repair and refresh itself and this is what takes place when we sleep. However, there is a right…
Everybody has a worldview. However, most people obtain their worldview by unconsciously absorbing it from the culture rather than consciously adopting it from Scripture. Identifying and mastering the components of the biblical worldview will strengthen the faith of any believer, help us to detect and refute error, and live consistent with the way the world…
After twenty years of American military presence in Afghanistan, the Taliban took over the country in a week. Analysts point to corruption as a leading cause for the former government’s lightning-quick demise. The watching world now fully expects human rights abuses to increase under the new regime. There was injustice before and new injustices will…
I had the great privilege of fellowshipping with the wonderful people of Heritage Baptist Church in Manhattan on this 20th anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. One of the church’s ministries is a live radio broadcast on Sunday evening. The subject of our on-air discussion last night was the destruction of Commercial Babylon in Revelation 18…
“Why are these people so slow?” I fumed as I weaved my way between shoppers at Walmart. I had just returned to the U.S. from urban Asia where the throttle of the pace of life is always wide open. Go! Go! Go! My to-do list burned a hole in my pocket. There was no time…
One day in Bob Jones University’s Dining Common (where all profound conversations occur!), I heard a lesson on Christian marriage. Five of us were at lunch: a married couple maybe in their early 50s, a much younger couple, married no more than a year or two; and myself. The older man was away from the…
Psalm 91 is arguably one of the most beautiful chapters in all of the Bible. I remember being drawn to it as a kid when I heard it read publicly at our church. More recently, I was drawn to Psalm 91 after the Coronavirus outbreak. I even preached a sermon on it a couple of…
Silence is golden…or is it? As a father of four, there are very few days in our home that have been silent, especially in the early years. I remember one afternoon we were sitting in the living room talking with a missionary and the kids were being extremely quiet. After a little while, I told…
I identify as a . . . who? In a fascinating article entitled Freedom from Blackness posted Thursday, Jason Hill, a professor of ethics at DePaul University in Chicago made this provocative statement, The fabricated black race should never have been born. It was confected out of false biological taxonomies by Europeans to justify a…
Right after graduating from college I enrolled in seminary to pursue a master’s degree. At the time I also became engaged to the young lady I would marry. I needed an increase in income to match my increasing financial obligations, so I applied for a job at a textile mill not far from my school.…