Mar 6, 2013 | Christian Living, The Bible
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego did well for themselves in exile. They were given high ranking bureaucratic positions, and a group of native Babylonian administrators became jealous. But these native Babylonians, also called Chaldeans, soon saw an opportunity to...
Mar 4, 2013 | Christian Living, Culture, The Bible
Suppose you were snatched from your own home by hostile invaders bent on destroying your country. What would you do? Would you stay true to your faith in a foreign land? That’s just what happened to scores of young people living in Israel during the Babylonian...
Feb 25, 2013 | Christian Living, The Bible
Your conscience can be wrong. You can’t always rely on it, because your sins can sear and crust it over without your noticing. Look at the Apostle Paul. Paul was so aware of this that he didn’t engage in the kind of moral introspection we commonly associate with...
Feb 20, 2013 | 1 & 2 Corinthians, Christian Living, Romans, The Bible
Christians and non-Christians alike can make sound moral choices because God created each and every one of us with a conscience. When your non-Christian friends talk about being good, decent people, even though they don’t go to church, they’re trying to assuage the...
Feb 13, 2013 | 1 & 2 Corinthians, Christian Living, The Bible
Ash Wednesday is the first day of the Lenten season. It’s a time to reflect on the very heart of the Christian faith — the death and resurrection of Jesus. It’s a time to recommit ourselves to the cause of Christ and be renewed in our faith as we look forward to...
Feb 11, 2013 | Christian Living, The Bible
When God spoke his name to Moses at the burning bush, he uttered a word so holy that for centuries it was almost never spoken aloud. We still don’t know today how the word was pronounced. I wrote about the sacred tetragrammaton, the four letters, in a recent blog...
