The signers of the U.S. Declaration of Independence took pains to say they were not rebelling against Britain on a whim or petulantly, but that their break came after a “long train of abuses and usurpations,” of which they list over two dozen. Furthermore, they had “petitioned for redress in the most humble terms,” but …
A popular book on grammar bears the intriguing title, Eats, Shoots & Leaves. It demonstrates, among other things, that commas are very important. The title could refer to a gunfighter, who, having enjoyed his meal at the saloon, guns down a rival and then strides out the door. But if you take out the comma, …
A number of years ago, I got a Sunday night call from a pastor who was facing backlash from a prominent deacon in his church. The critic was taking exception to his statement that Proverbs 22:6 wasn’t a guarantee – “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old …
The word, ‘angel,’ comes from the Greek term, angelos (pronounced “ahn’geh lahs”), which means “messenger”. It’s the same word we find in euangelion (“good message” or “good news”), the base of our word ‘evangelize’. But that doesn’t mean that everyone who spreads the good news of salvation in Jesus is an angel; regular earthly Christians …
Maybe so. If they were alive on the earth in Noah’s day, then they were included in God’s directive that Noah bring two of every kind of land animal and bird into the Ark (Genesis 6:18-21). But wouldn’t that have been impossible, given the dinosaurs’ size and temperament? How could massive herbivores like Brontosaurus and …
It was precisely because Jesus knew that Judas would betray him that He chose him as a disciple. For us to be saved, it was essential that Jesus die for our sins on the cross — and Judas’ treachery would lead to that event. As popular as Jesus was, the authorities knew that it could …