Apr 28, 2020 | Christian Living, Psalms
I was recently asked to comment on the appropriateness of lamenting as a Christian, given the stress people are under because of the COVID-19 pandemic. In short, lament is a very appropriate response to the cruel losses and hardships of these days. The Bible not only...
Nov 4, 2015 | Christian Living, Psalms
I learned my first Latin paradigms years ago with a nonsense phrase: OSTMUSTISNT. I put the words endings I needed to remember together in a made-up word. Whenever I need to remember those endings, I simply recall this nonsense word. Students have always used mnemonic...
Aug 19, 2015 | Christian Living, The Bible
You and I have a choice between two ways of living: we can live according to the covenant which the One True Creator God has made with His people, or we can live in disobedience. It’s common to see these two ways of life compared and contrasted in Scripture. Jesus...
May 20, 2015 | Christian Living, Culture, The Bible
When I was a youngster, I used to love it when my dad would tell me stories about Dizzy Dean. Dizzy Dean was a character. He was full of baloney and malarkey, but when it came to his own baseball skills, he was such a good pitcher that he could pull off almost...
Jan 21, 2015 | Christian Living, Romans, The Bible
We must be a people who live up to our baptismal promises. It may be that you do not consider baptism a promise, but it is precisely that. You and I have entered into a covenant relationship with God through Jesus Christ. We have made promises, and these promises...
