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Why is so much world history about wars and battles between people, races and nations? Why is so much national politics about party divisions, competing ideas of justice, equality and liberty, class warfare, racial stereotypes, struggles for power, and personal...
ENCOURAGEMENT TO PRAY
In the upper room during his last supper before his crucifixion Jesus promised his disciples, “You may ask me anything in my name, and I will do it.” (John 14:14) Yet often it appears that our prayers are unanswered. Where can we find encouragement to pray? How do we...
FEAR IS DEFENSELESSNESS
In his Inaugural Address in 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his oft-quoted words: “Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Zygmunt Bauman, one of the foremost social thinkers of our time, writes, Fear is at...
NOBODY KNOWS THE TROUBLE I’VE SEEN
An exposition of Revelation 7. Nobody knows the trouble I’ve seen Nobody knows my sorrow Nobody knows my trouble but Jesus Glory Hallelujah! Sometimes I’m up, sometimes I’m down Oh, yes, Lord Sometimes I’m almost to the ground Oh, yes, Lord Although you see me...
A PICTURE OF HUMAN SOCIETY
During the past couple of months I have been studying Dante’s Divine Comedy. It is composed of three books: Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradisio in Italian and Hell, Purgatory and Heaven in English. Dorothy Sayers has been my guide in the Penguin Classics series. She...
WHY SUFFERING?
An exposition of Revelation 6: the four horsemen. Each of us has our own story about human suffering. Whether it is about ourselves, or a loved one, or the tragedies we read about in newspapers or on television, or in the history books, there is plenty of suffering in...
A DOOR INTO HEAVEN: WHAT TAKES PLACE NOW AND HEREAFTER
An exposition of Revelation 4 & 5. “After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, ‘Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.’” (Rev.4:1) We...
THE MESSAGE OF REVELATION
Over the years the book of Revelation has become a favorite of mine. I believe that its message is perennially relevant to our lives and times. I believe that it is what it claims to be: a revealing or prophecy of what is really taking place, in the present and the...
INSPIRATION FOR THE PRESENT
In a world in which there is much to discourage us; in a future which is uncertain; in so-called experts who spread doom and gloom; in a news media that bombards us with negativity; in governmental leaders who seek to control us and tell us what to do or not to do; in...
RACISM VERSUS OUR COMMON HUMANITY
All forms of racial discrimination are an evil. No biblical Christian can be a racist. Paul in his speech to the Athenian Areopagus made that plain (Acts 17:22-31). The Athenians were racists, proud of their racial superiority. Greeks despised non-Greeks as ignorant...
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