Category: The People of God
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The Persecuted Sing
Who is the most politically powerful person you have personally met? For me it was the mayor of Providence, Rhode Island. In the grand scheme of things he was hardly one of the more powerful people in world history.
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His Very Best
Vegetables straight from the garden are hard to beat. A freshly picked ear of corn (slathered in butter of course) is so sweet. A slice of a vine-ripened tomato on a sandwich is mouth-watering.
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With One Voice
Over the years I have enjoyed several visits to Niagara Falls. While waterfalls, no matter how large or small, are always beautiful and majestic, Niagara Falls stands out above any other that I’ve seen.
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Dead Men Rising
The most exciting basketball game I ever witnessed was a game between my college and our archrival. With fifteen seconds remaining we were down by five and they had the ball.
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Counted among the Resolute
Before my wife and I married, her little brother asked her to take him to see this new movie called Star Wars. Seeing that she wasn’t much interested, he told her that one of the characters “looks like Stan.”
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Welcome Home
What is happening that Jesus is standing outside knocking on the door to his own church?! He is outside looking in! Why has he been shut out?
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Buy without Money
My wife and I were waiting for our meal at an open air restaurant in Guatemala when a small girl approached us from the street with a basket of trinkets. We speak no Spanish; she spoke no English. But we knew what she was asking.
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Straight Talk
Easily the wealthiest city in the region, Laodicea was world renowned for its robust banking system, a thriving fashion industry and highly respected medical facilities and treatments. The city’s prosperity and culture of self-sufficiency infected the church sowing seeds of complacency, a condition that sickened Jesus.
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Unshakable
In AD 17 the city of Philadelphia was devastated by an earthquake. Imagine the catastrophic destruction that leveled the majestic and ornate marble and granite structures, not least of which were the temples to the gods.
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Perilous Complacency
In 546 BC Croesus, king of Lydia, met Cyrus the Great of Persia on the field of battle. The two armies fought to a draw. Croesus decided to fall back to Sardis, the Lydian capital, …
A Revelation Invitation 