There’s a fascinating account in Judges chapter six in which an angel visits Gideon on his farm. The divine messenger hails the young man, saying, “The Lord is with you valiant warrior!” (Judg. 6:12). Gideon responds, “Please, my lord, if the Lord is with us, why has all this happened? And where are all his…
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), an English philosopher, declared in his book Leviathan that the life of man was “. . . solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.” Though we might be put off by his pessimistic outlook on the nature of humanity, notice what God said about society during the time of Isaiah: “For your hands…
One of the most controversial figures in American military history is Colonel George Armstrong Custer. Aggressive and eager for success, he was immortalized by his famous defeat and death at Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876. The popular image ingrained on generations is that of Custer and 210 cavalrymen facing insurmountable odds as thousands…
One of the mightiest heroes of Ancient Greece was the famed Achilles. According to legend his mother, Thetis, held him by his heel and dipped him into the river Styx in an attempt to make him invincible. Unfortunately for Achilles, the heel by which his mother held him was never submerged in the water, leaving…
My dad has a book coming out this month: The Solomon Promise: The Key to Healing America and Ourselves. It is not entirely new. It is based on an earlier book he wrote called Holiness: God’s Plan for Fulness of Life. That book originated from three powerful sermons he preached when he was in his…
I suspect one of the marks of people of faith is the number of people who warn them to be more careful. My father received that advice a lot. I can’t count how many times people told him he was reckless to keep starting mission churches when his own church had so many financial needs….
It was a time of enormous upheaval and uncertainty. Political pundits and economists brimmed with opinions about what the future held. One thing was certain: change was afoot. The outgoing leader certainly had flaws. He had been prideful. He was not always receptive to critical feedback. But his successes had been many. The economy soared…
2020 will be a year for the record books. Many things caught people by surprise. Some aspects of the year were truly alarming. For people sensitive to eschatological issues, it provided a goldmine of signs, prophetic allusions, and apocalyptic scenarios. If you are concerned with the state of the nation and wonder what God is…
A.W. Tozer claimed, “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” Your view of God affects every aspect of your life. When you contemplate God, what is the first thing that springs to mind? His love? Power? Wisdom? It ought to be His holiness. We think…
During the early stages of the American Civil War, president Lincoln was plagued with poor generals. General Winfield Scott had been a hero in the Spanish American War, but he was aging and could no longer take the field. Officers who put in their time had been steadily promoted since that war and now held…