“On the third day after the fall of our city, the Sultan celebrated his victory with a great, joyful triumph. He issued a proclamation: the citizens of all ages who had managed to escape detection were to leave their hiding places throughout the city and come out into the open, as the...
How God Fools Mankind - Keeping Him Ignorant Of The Truth: Strategery has become synonymous with when what is portrayed as simple, simpleminded, or even self-evident, is able to dupe and thwart an opposing force that perceives itself to be either superior, or to suppose they know the answe...
The three youths refused to yield and were cast into the furnace -- only to miraculously emerge unscathed. The message was simple: God protects those who would die in his name. Most martyrs don't benefit from such divine intervention. Still, the idea soon emerged among the Jews that dying...
I don’t think most people would, though admittedly some might. I imagine you might be inclined to instead shout it from the roof tops with that person. “Yes! Your life matters!!” You might even be thinking – this is a really important step to this person ending cycles of abuse. ...
Once upon a time Jews had a choice between Jesus or the murdering revolutionary Barabbas. They chose Barabbas, and the consequences of that choice has been with the Jews ever since. It will continue until they bend the knee to Jesus or are wiped out by God’s judgments in Rev 16 throu...
Camp is what we might call a false Anglicism since the term comes from the French expression “se camper” which means posing (in front of someone) in an exaggerated way and that was related to prostitution and Transvestism. From this point, this term passed to the English language at th...
We need to know who God is so we can relate to him—talk to him, glorify him, and enjoy his company. Even though God has revealed himself, and told us who he is, sometimes we still get his name wrong. Forgetting that the names we use reveal the nature of a relationship, we often...
Christianity is the strongest defense against injustice, the strongest garrison against the oppression of the powerful over the weak, the violent over the peaceful, and the wicked over the good, because Christian morality makes each of us accountable to God and our neighbor for our actions, both...
Next, I ask what the passage says about relating to others (relational application). Having looked at the big picture, God and Man, it is now time to look at the smaller picture. This step asks how believers relate to God, their spouses, their families, their church, and those outside...
“For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in union with the Messiah Yeshua our Lord.” (Romans 6:23) We might not all be able to heal crowds of sick people from their diseases and pains, but we can call the Shabbat a delight by bringing mercy and...