Graduation speeches can be a little like Disney movies. They contain good nuggets, and oftentimes good stories, but usually are built on a faulty view of mankind, which means that they ultimately fall short of accomplishing any kind of meaningful goal. Speeches by Christians ought not share in this fatal flaw. In his delightful (and …
A Review of 40 Questions About The Text and Canon of the New Testament. It seems like every few months there is a new attack on the New Testament. From “finding thehistorical Jesus” to evaluating other gospels, how do we know that the New Testament that we have todayis the actual full and closed canon …
Most of us know the story of Moses. Hid because of Pharaoh’s genocide when he was a baby, found by Pharaoh’s daughter, and raised in the palace. Moses was given every advantage of life in the most advanced nation of its day. Education, military tactics, wealth. It was all his. In fact, an argument can …
We’ve had COVID sweeping through our house. So it’s been a week (so far) of fevers, aches, and congestion (along with a very active two-year-old). The feeling of being “closed-in” has been building, something we haven’t experienced since the height of the shutdown during the pandemic. During this time, my Bible reading has taken me …
Abraham has waited thirteen years. He has watched Ishmael grow. But Ishmael is wild, and as he grows, friction in the family grows with him. But maybe, just maybe, Ishmael is the promised child. And for thirteen years the domestic gloom and growing darkness about the promise of God build. God has made a promise, …
