RSS FeedNOBODY 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...
WISDOM FROM ABRAHAM LINCOLN FOR INDEPENDENCE DAY
On April 4, 1865 President Abraham Lincoln visited Richmond, Virginia after it had fallen to the Union forces. He encountered a sullen white population seething with resentment. He stepped out of his rowboat onto the riverbank. There was no reception committee but one...
THE ANSWER TO DISCOURAGEMENT
Are you discouraged in the face of everything that is happening in the world and our inability to fix the problems and protect ourselves from harm? What resources do you have to combat fear and our failure to experience joy in daily living? “Love always perseveres” (1...
LOVE KEEPS NO RECORD OF WRONGS
Now and again I wake up in the night remembering people who have let me down, made life difficult, cost me money, hurt my feelings, injured my pride, failed to do the right thing. It is hard to get back to sleep as the memories come flooding back of all those...
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