Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught knowledge to the people; he carefully evaluated and arranged many proverbs. The Teacher sought to find delightful words, and to write accurately truthful sayings. TheContinue reading
Tu Quoque
When we were younger and confronted with all kinds of frivolous arguments and challenges on the recess table, we would likely respond with statements like, “takes one to know one,” or, “I’m rubber and you’reContinue reading
Jesus, the Bread of Life | John 6:1-71
The “disciple whom Jesus loved,” known as John, either John the brother of Zebedee, the Apostle, or John the Elder, was writing his recollections of his experiences with Jesus so that those who hear orContinue reading
The Difficult Days
So remember your Creator in the days of your youth – before the difficult days come, and the years draw near when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; before the sun andContinue reading
Deliverance From This Crooked Generation
And with many other words he testified, and exhorted them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation” (Acts 2:40). We do well to remember the summation of Peter’s message, to save ourselves from this crookedContinue reading
Keeping the Commandments | 1 John 5:1-5
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is begotten of God: and whosoever loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him. Hereby we know that we love the children of God,Continue reading
Yoked to the Religious Right?
Be not unequally yoked with unbelievers: for what fellowship have righteousness and iniquity? or what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what portion hath a believer with anContinue reading
The Slippery Slope
As human beings we seek to understand our world through the perception of our senses and the exercise of our faculties of reason. We like to imagine ourselves as neutral, objective arbiters of what weContinue reading
The Treatise on Love Concludes | 1 John 4:17-21
Herein is love made perfect with us, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as he is, even so are we in this world. There is no fear in love: butContinue reading