World literature classes considered the Yoruba story of The Golden Chain. In freshman classes, we looked at the first two chapters of Genesis. I taught at a Christian school. And by their junior year, most students had been through this unit two or three times. They knew in a general way...
We will do well to number our days so that we may incline our hearts to wisdom (Psalm 90:12). This was the prayer of Moses. Now, just take a little inventory of the times and moments that we may have. If a man is to live for 70 years, then he has approximately (27393 days),...
Finally, when three friends came to console Job in his anguish, each of them accused him of wickedness. The record says Job was “perfect and upright” (Job 1:1). There is not the least implication in the book that Job suffered because of his sins. But Eliphaz said, “Even as I ha...
28 Now after the Sabbath, toward the dawn of the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb. 2 And behold, there was a great earthquake, for an angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone and sat on it. 3 His ap...
(that I was before salvation) and putting on the new person in Christ (being renewed in His image) have been so similar to the sweet story of my young granddaughter learning to walk. Sometimes I faltered. Sometimes I wanted to flat refuse until the Lord “coaxed” me on, and sometimes...
When Jesus asked him if he wanted to get well, the man did not answer with a yes or no, he told his story of how when the waters were stirred, someone would always get to the waters before him. This apparently went on for over three decades. It had the ring of an excuse, like ...
When the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, disputed about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a reviling judgment upon him, but said, "The Lord rebuke you." (Jude 5-9) It appears that Satan is not presently one of the imprisoned spirits, since he is regarded...
Here it is: Just as in verses 1-3 in which someone has to die in order for the second union to be non-adulterous, so someone has to die here in order for there to be no spiritual adultery – the adultery of seeking to join ourselves to both Jesus and the Law of Moses at the sa...
Don't understand the meaning of the song? Highlight lyrics and request an explanation. Click onhighlightedlyrics to explain. Oh, holy Moses and sweet Madonna Where's that simple human kindness My story closes and I'm a goner Where's the truth in all this blindness ...
since we have all read further in the story of Acts, not to mention through Paul’s letters, and we know that the ultimate result was that the Gospel would go to places it might not otherwise have been, and that letters were written that are now part of the Scriptures, that might not...