According to a recent newspaper report, only 8% of British men attend church regularly, though 53% identify themselves as Christians. And the situation is similar in other Western nations, with more than 40% of U.S. evangelicals not attending church weekly and more than 60% of American mainline Christians not attending weekly. In short, millions who …
What was Jacob’s Ladder doing on a Communist stamp? Wasn’t Yugoslavia one of those eastern European nations sharing the Soviet Union’s hostility to the Bible? Yet there lies Jacob, sleeping below a group of four angels making their way up and down the rungs. This 1970 stamp, issued deep in the Cold War, was part …
It’s that brief season of the year when most people are still on track with their resolutions to eat more healthfully and lose weight. In pursuit of that goal millions have consulted Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, online diet plans, calorie-counting apps, and a host of other nutritional guides—most of which have great value. But what …
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Despite the holiday season, the Newtown school killings brought a nation to its knees in shock and sadness. Dear little ones lost their lives in a senseless act of mass homicide. Only the most callous individual would not grieve over the loss of life, the heartbreak the parents feel, and the stolen potential of those …
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Most people know that “Jesus” means “Yah Saves” and that “Peter” means “Rock,” but what about those name clusters we find at the end of the epistles? What do their names signify? For instance, Paul greeted 27 different people in the last chapter of Romans. Let’s sample a dozen or so to show how we …
Matthew’s Gospel tells us that when King Herod learned about the birth of the Messiah, he tried to trick the wise men into serving as spies to help him murder Jesus. When that didn’t work, he killed all the male children in Bethlehem under two years old in a murderous effort to exterminate God’s anointed …