Sometimes we hear of someone on a construction job that was not wearing his safety strap. Then he falls from a height to either hurt himself badly or be killed. Jude, the brother of Jesus, wrote a letter that is included in the New Testament. He was writing to a...
Parousia In the concluding part of our series, "Order...Order...Order", based on the inspired sequencing of Psalms 22-24, today we come to Psalm 24: "Lift your heads, you gates. Be lifted, you ancient doors, so that the king of glory may come in. Who is this king of...
Okay folks, today we come to the concluding section of our long journey of studying the parable of the Good Samaritan. As always the best is reserved for the last, so here goes... 9. Comforter Mind you, the compassionate Samaritan after saving the robber's victim and...
Continuing with the series on the Parable of talents, today we come to the other lessons: "NO" DELAY "The man who had received five bags of gold WENT AT ONCE and put his money to work and gained five bags more." (Matt 25:16 NIV) Not for the most faithful servant,...
Let me begin with a Tarzan story! Well, this is as real as it is surreal. Johnny Weissmuller, the Champion Olympic swimmer who donned the role of Tarzan the ape man in the Silver screen with as much aplomb in 1930s & 40s' as he dominated the Olympic swimming lanes...
I woke up this morning from a restless, disturbing dream with a splitting headache. I tossed and turned for a few moments, as my mind slowly made that transition to reality, but I couldn't get the dream out of my head. In my dream, I was in a large house, heated by a...
"This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it." (Ps 118:24 NKJV) "Do you believe that this is the end of days?" That was the question a friend wrote me a few days ago. It is a question that I have gotten a lot of times over the years. With all...
In the concluding part of my Easter message on the "Identification theme", today I would like to focus on the following "Identity topics": 1. Identifying ourselves with the Messiah's cause: It is one thing to identify the Messiah's cause and quite another to identify...
After an incredibly warm and unseasonably dry beginning to our winter season, mid-January was characterized by greening grass and sprouting irises. The warmest winter (if we could really call it "winter") was well under way. The weather was the central theme in all...
I listened to the morning news and two things were headlines. The first was violence in society. In addition to violent deaths on roads, domestic violence and world-wide violence which we hear about every day, a gunman had caused multiple deaths and injuries in a...