2 I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from you I have no good thing.” 3 As for the saints who are in the land, they are the glorious ones in whom is all my delight. 4 The sorrows of those will increase who run after other gods. I will not pour out their libations of blood …
Jesus’s use of stories in his teaching is well documented in the Gospels, but how much notice do we give to how these stories are constructed? A closer look reveals how Jesus was the master of his craft. Here we take a look at just one story, the Rich Man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19–31), to …
Os Guinness, Fool’s Talk: Recovering the Art of Christian Persuasion (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 2015), 272 pgs. Summary: Evangelical apologist Os Guinness (1941- ) has written a book laying out a framework of Christian apologetics as a form persuasive speech or rhetoric. Dr. Guinness believes that it is particularly important that we recover the art …
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7 The LORD makes poor and makes rich; he brings low and he exalts. 8 He raises up the poor from the dust; he lifts the needy from the ash heap to make them sit with princes and inherit a seat of honor. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD’s, and on them he has …
As I looked out over the congregation that Sunday evening, I marveled at what the Lord had done. We’d returned to sing, pray, listen to God’s Word, and celebrate the Lord’s Supper. Such a gathering is nothing in the eyes of the world, but I knew better. Trophies of God’s grace stood before me as …
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The bulk of the British and French armies were huddled on the beach at Dunkirk as German Stuka dive bombers pounded them from the air. (To enhance the terror, the Germans had attached whistles, “trumpets of Jericho,” to the planes and bombs.)[1] The situation was desperate; Winston Churchill quietly agreed with the Admiralty that only ten to twenty …