Years ago, I used to enjoy going up on internet forums and discussing religion there. They had any number of them divided up by category. I tended to hang out on the Christian forums. What …
All About the New Testament #4
Once while I was driving home from watching the local fireworks display on the Fourth of July, I was thinking about the passage of time. It had been over 200 years since the signing of …
All About the New Testament #3
One day a man named John Mark sat down to write out his testimony. His writing materials were gathered around him: pen, ink, and sheets of papyrus–the writing paper of the time. The sheets would …
All About the New Testament #2
I know it will make some people uncomfortable for me to say this, but…Jesus was a Jew. He was born to a Jewish mother and raised in a Jewish household. He was circumcised on the …
All About the New Testament #1
It is not surprising that, when a person picks up the Bible and starts to read, they find themselves a little bit lost. After all, the Bible was written a long time ago—the last book …
You Can Win
It never ceases to amaze me how far man will go, what dangers he will face, in order to penetrate the unknown. To us, the Lewis and Clark expedition was just an early attempt to …
The Middle East & Prophecy #6
If you pick up the Bible and start reading in any of the prophets, nearly anywhere, you will almost certainly be reading about the Middle East. Even the prophecies that deal with other nations deal …
The Middle East & Prophecy #5
Too often, people open the Bible and try to read the future or interpret the prophecy without first understanding the past, and that’s why we have been talking about who owns the land of Palestine …
The Middle East & Prophecy #4
God only knows what’s coming next in the Middle East. I do not mean to be irreverent. I mean, literally, only God knows what is coming next. I guess we can live with that, but …
The Middle East & Prophecy #3
Who owns Palestine, really? Who does this blood-soaked piece of property belong to? It is an important question, because the whole world seems to realize that the last chapter of man’s troubled history on this …
The Burden of Babylon
When I study the prophets, I am looking for God. I’m not looking for an outline of what’s going to happen tomorrow or the events of the next few years. What I want to know …
The Middle East & Prophecy #2
Who owns the Middle East? Is the real battle going on in the Middle East about who owns the land or about religion? You would think when you hear people talk about land for peace …
The Middle East & Prophecy #1
Who owns Palestine? Who actually has the deed to the property? As the old saying goes, possession is nine points of the law, but that doesn’t keep us from asking the important question of the …
A Legal Christmas
I am beginning to think that Americans, along with losing their Christmas spirit—whatever that is—are also losing their sense of humor. A law school in Indiana removed a Christmas tree from its atrium because of …
About Christmas
What did the first Christians believe and practice about Christmas? I know in a way that is a loaded question, because the word Christmas is found nowhere in the New Testament, nor is any noticeable …
Too Late for Christmas
If you’re planning on celebrating the birth of Christ in the near future…well, I hate to be the one to tell you this but you’re about three months late. Yeah, really. What’s funny about it …
Jeremiah #28
I have said so many times that if you don’t understand the history contained in the Bible, you can’t hope to understand the prophecy. One reason is that without a grasp of history, you don’t …
Jeremiah #27
When the king of Babylon besieged Jerusalem and took the city, what on earth was he after? What did he want? If you have ever visited the old city of Jerusalem, you have to wonder …
Jeremiah #26
It must be a truly awful thing when a city falls. What happened to Baghdad when the Americans took it was nothing compared to what happened at the end of a siege in the ancient …
Jeremiah #25
I have to wonder how a prophet ever rises to prominence. We look back on these men as giants, but in their own generation, they were just ordinary men with an extraordinary message. One of …