“But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes...Continue reading
Category: Obedience
A Leader Who Could Not Make Up His Mind
The reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah, was not a happy one. For two years his city of Jerusalem was besieged by the Babylonians and their king, Nebuchadnezzar. Famine prevailed. The walls of the city were literally crumbling. The armies...Continue reading
Global WARNING!
"The earth and the works that are in it will be burned up." (2 Peter 3:10). So wrote Peter by Divine inspiration nearly 2,000 years ago. His words were not the first century version of the pseudo-science of global warming...
Convenient Obedience
The troubled citizens of Judah gathered before the prophet Jeremiah with a single request. "Please, let our petition be acceptable to you, and pray for us to the LORD your God, for all this remnant (since we are left but...Continue reading
When the Numbers Don’t Matter
In II Kings 6 we find Israel on the verge of a potentially devastating assault from the Syrian army. The king of Syria had sent forth "horses and chariots and a great army there, and they came by night and...Continue reading