light, as it is frightening to watch Nikabrik slowly fall into darkness. Children (and their parents) need to understand the vital lesson that it is not where we begin but where we end that counts. There are some (to paraphrase the moral of one of Jesus’ parables) who initially say ye...
“Manoah’s Wife” (on Judges 13) was another stand-out sermon in the volume that has an unexpected turn related to the preacher’s biography. An angel appeared to Manoah’swife—nameless in the biblical text—first, to announce that her son would deliver Israel. Then the angel appeared a...