2023
Father, Forgive Them
Though there is a sense in which these people—the priests and scribes and Pharisees, the members of the Sanhedrin—knew very well what they were doing—they were murdering an innocent man—yet it is probably also true that in their spiritual blindness and the hardness of their own hearts they did not fully understand to Whom they were doing it.
2023
On Being a Man (1)
What’s a man to do? That’s a great question! . . . precisely because being a man has never been about WHAT we do. It’s always been about WHO we are.
2023
He Did What? (2)
Every battle is a spiritual battle. Whether it’s Abram’s rescue of Lot, or God’s deliverance of Israel from Egypt, or Joshua’s conquest of the promised land, or David extending the boundaries of his kingdom, every battle is a spiritual battle, and God is a warrior who fights for His people.
2023
He Did What? (1)
What I mean to do by drawing attention to “God for you” is to highlight the ultimate plan/cosmic warfare aspect of the epistle.
2021
Be Very Afraid
I decided to Google a list of phobias one day, after reading about two types of fear: irrational fear, commonly known as Phobia, and rational fear. Did you know that Hippopotmonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words? Chaetophobia is the fear of hair and Kathisophobia is the fear of sitting down. There is also
2021
A Primer on the Not-So-Minor Minor Prophets
Nestled in the middle of our Bibles are twelve short books commonly referred to as the Minor Prophets. Perhaps it’s the designation “minor” that has led some Bible readers to neglect these sacred works. Or maybe it’s because several of the books are rarely preached from Sunday morning pulpits, a reality that has led many to conclude they must not be all that important.