In 1640 the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony printed the Bay Psalm Book. It was the first printed book in North America. The original title was The Whole Booke of Psalms Faithfully Translated into English Metre. That title highlights the Puritan desire for a psalm book that clearly reflected the original Hebrew poetry of the…
In my last post I argued that anger is a severe problem we can’t ignore. Hopefully, you are convinced that you want to “Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice” (Eph 4:31). But even if you despise your anger, you may not believe you will…
February 3, 2020 Commissioner Roger Goodell NFL Corporate Office 345 Park Avenue New York, NY 10154 Dear Commissioner Goodell, This is the first time I have ever felt compelled to write a letter to the NFL corporate office. I have been an avid football fan my entire life, and I thoroughly enjoyed the recent Super…
God spoke to a future group of people in the last half of the book of Isaiah. His message was a message of hope and edification to a generation of His people that were suffering the consequences of His chastisement of the nation. Technically, the young people deported to Babylon were suffering the consequences of…
San grew up in Vietnam, living the life of a rebel. “I have control of everything I’m doing. I am strong. I am good by myself.” At the age of 18 when North Vietnam took control of South Vietnam and communism ruled, with no money in his pocket, San got on a boat and came…
This is a sermon with two texts. One text is from the Old Testament, the other from the New. One comes from the prophet Jeremiah, the other from the apostle Paul. Our two texts might seem contradictory, but taken together, they summarize the whole of the Christian’s life in the world. The first is this:…
(or, The Way God Can Use One Man) Uncle Tom’s Cabin first appeared in 1852 in serial form and was later published as a book, setting sales records. Its emotional portrayal of the suffering of black slaves in the south captured the attention of the country. A decade later, during the early days of the…
I firmly believe that Christians generally undersell the danger of anger. For example, we constantly warn men about lust/pornography, and we warn women about letting the opinions of others control them. However, we rarely confront sinful anger1 with the same passion. One reason is because anger is so common. We think, “Everyone gets angry, so…
Whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away (James 4:14). I was just walking out of a teachers’ luncheon at church yesterday when one of our deacons broke the news to me. “Kobe…
For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward. Deuteronomy 10:17 As a child in the public school, we used to pray before snack time. God is great, God is good. Let us thank Him for…