My son, a PhD student, had fallen behind on his research. Much of this was due to a major comprehensive exam that, complicated by the fact that the university closed down due to COVID-19, took almost two semesters to complete. As a result, he was unable to meet his...
We aren't told much about Enoch in the Bible. In fact, the sum of our knowledge comes from a few verses.First of all, we know his parentage: "When Jared was 162 years old, he became the father of Enoch...When Enoch was 65 years old, he became the father of...
We were moving all of the Sermon Illustrator files to a new, mobile-friendly format, and this has required hours of tediously copying old files, pasting them into the new format, and then reading them through in order to put them in appropriate categories. I am happy...
Do you live in a house with stairs? Or perhaps you have stairs to climb in your office building. Or if not, maybe there are stairs to enter your church, your doctor’s office, you... Well, I think we all get the picture. Stairs are everywhere.The house we currently...
"Call to me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known." (Jeremiah 33:3 ESV)"Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear." (Isaiah 65:24 ESV)We sing this in church occasionally: "The answers...
"We love because he first loved us." (1 John 4:19 ESV)"So now faith, hope and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love." (1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV)I was sitting here last night trying to figure what to write about. I had a lot of ideas and tried to...
"But when the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father, He will bear witness about Me. And you also will bear witness, because you have been with Me from the beginning. ... I did not say these things to...
"Tell the priests who carry the ark of the covenant: 'When you reach the edge of the Jordan's waters, go and stand in the river.' Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet...
"If we receive the testimony of men, the testimony of God is greater, for this is the testimony of God that He has borne concerning His Son. Whoever believes in the Son of God has the testimony in himself. Whoever does not believe God has made Him a liar, because he...
My brother lives in the Ottawa Valley, by a lake nicknamed the Lake of Storms. Often choppy, the wind can whip the water into high waves and whitecaps quickly. All wise boaters know when to go ashore! This pales, though, in comparison to storms at sea."Others went out...