"But far be it from me to boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world. Galatians 6:14"
You might have noticed that our builders are applying insulation on the structure of the new auditorium. Before installing each roofing panel they lay down a double layer of insulation. Another crew is affixing fiberglass-covered ...
2 Corinthians 5:11-15 "Therefore, knowing the fear of the Lord, we persuade others." (5:11a) Paul’s anticipation of the judgment seat of Christ motivated him to persuade others. The phrase “knowing the fear of the Lord” (verse 11a) follows “we must all appear before the ...
Two or three weeks ago I sent an email message to Eugene Merrill, Distinguished Professor of Old Testament Studies at Dallas Theological Seminary. In 1985 Dr. Merrill was my first-year Hebrew professor. He has been a member of First Baptist Church of Dallas for 35 years. So I asked him in the ...
Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scoffers who rule this people in Jerusalem! (Isaiah 28:14) ~ Surely Isaiah grieved as he confronted the irony of religious unbelief in what was supposed to be the “Bible belt” of the Promised Land. He must have felt anger and ...
A grocery store and a clinic, a house and a tavern, a government building and an Orthodox church—these occupy three corners of this doglegged crossroad in the Romanian village. Every year the same old drunk man greeted us, either from the tavern on one side or from the broken down chair on ...