How many of you figured that, based on its title, this article was going to be about the Garden of Eden? Doubtless, for centuries the apple has been maligned in story and song as that fruit which Eve plucked, ate,...Continue reading
Tag: Obedience
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