Category: Babylon
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A Champion to His People
Bullies, unfortunately, are a common childhood experience—the strong picking on the weak. They ridicule, they intimidate, they terrorize, they exploit, they abuse. However, bullies are a fragile lot.
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Mystery Revealed
As human beings we tend to marvel at the wrong things. We marvel at what we see while the qualities and character that are unseen are overlooked.
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The Mask Comes Off
John appears to introduce a new character into his narrative—the great prostitute—until we notice that on her forehead was written a name of mystery: “Babylon the great, mother of prostitutes and of earth’s abominations.”
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Good News in an Unlikely Form
At the junior high school where I once taught math, the class before lunch was not dismissed by the bell. Rather, each classroom was dismissed to the cafeteria on a staggered schedule. On consecutive days late in the school year I dismissed my class …