"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"
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 ...
We ministered for three days in the Romanian community of Odobesti then moved our evangelistic focus to a village called Petrachioaia. The people in both places were poor, but life for the Petrachioaians appeared somewhat better. Odobesti is older and further away from the big city of Bucharest. ...