A voice called, "Call out!" I asked, "What should I call out?" "Call out: All people are like grass, and all their beauty is like a flower in the field. Grass dries up, and flowers wither when the LORD'S breath blows on them. Yes, people are like grass. Grass dries up, and flowers wither, but …
Tertullian was Right About the Shape of the Cross
In the midst of the excitement about the discovery of the small lead books that date from the earliest days of Christianity, this of note: Philip Davies, Emeritus Professor of Old Testament Studies at Sheffield University, says the most powerful evidence for a Christian origin lies in plates cast into a picture map of the …
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Month of Sundays: Faith
As they passed by early in the morning, they noticed that the fig-tree was withered up from the very roots. Then Peter recollected what had occurred. “Look, Rabbi,” he exclaimed, “the fig-tree which you doomed is withered up!” “Have faith in God!” replied Jesus. “I tell you that if any one should say to this …
Month of Sundays: Excuses
They all with one accord began to ask to be excused. The first man said to the servant 'I have bought a field and am obliged to go and look at it. I must ask you to consider me excused.' The next said 'I have bought five pairs of bullocks, and I am on my …
Month of Sundays: Eternity
"We do not know where you are going, Master," said Thomas; "so how can we know the way?" Jesus answered: "I am the Way, and the Truth, and the Life; no one ever comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:5-6) Mohammed’s father had tried everything to bring his son back to Islam. Mohammed, …
"Modern" Palestine, Part II
A few years back I featured some maps of what was then referred to as "Modern Palestine" but was in reality the region under the Ottoman Empire. Below is another map from another Bible from the same era, showing both Galilee and Judea. (You can see a higher resolution image by clicking on the map.)
Month of Sundays: Defeat
But, when the full time came, God sent his Son--born a woman's child, born subject to Law-- To ransom those who were subject to Law, so that we might take our position as sons. (Galatians 4:4-5) In 387 B.C. the Gauls came down from the north and defeated the Romans at the Battle of the …
Month of Sundays: Cost
Why, which of you, when he wants to build a tower, does not first sit down and reckon the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?-- For fear that, if he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish it, every one who sees it should begin to laugh at …
Month of Sundays: Compassion
And Jesus went forth and saw much people, and his heart did melt upon them and he healed of them those that were sick. (Matthew 14:14, Tyndale) Published in 1526, William Tyndale’s New Testament was the first New Testament to be translated directly into English from the original Greek. Originally from England, he was forced …
Month of Sundays: Asking
“Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done–on earth, as in Heaven.” (Matthew 6:10.) My mother wasn’t in the best of moods that evening. As I prepared to leave her and my wife in the car and run in the grocery store, she gave me her orders: “I want the greenest bananas in the place!” That …
Positive Infinity 