"For Such A Time As This" (Esther 4:14)
TRUSTING GOD IN TIMES OF PERIL
I no longer listen to “Classic Rock” stations, but when I did you could bet that the AC/DC classic, Highway to Hell, was on the playlist. Released in 1979, it instantly became a hit and has been used in numerous movie soundtracks since. It was rightly criticized for its glamorization of Hell as a desirable […]
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In Psalm 24:3-6, King David presents the exclusive standards of true holiness God requires for a person to live in His immediate, unveiled presence when he writes, who will ascend into the hill of the Lord? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not
King Solomon is one of the most complex, paradoxical, but intriguing figures in the Bible. This son of King David, born to him by his marriage to Bathsheba, whom David previously had committed adultery with, was chosen by God, through David, to succeed him as King of Israel (1 Kings 1:28-30). Israel had been established
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(This post was previously published in August 2020) I continue on this dark, dreaded and scornful topic of sin, not because I find it fascinating or take some perverse delight in doing so, but because I believe that until we begin to comprehend the breadth, length and depth of our sin; how vile and detestable
This post was previously published in November 2022. King David is one of the most prominent, well-known figures in the Bible, mostly for his single-handed defeat of Goliath, whom David, as a young teenager, slayed with a well-placed stone from his slingshot (1 Samuel 17:31-54). Goliath was the gigantic champion warrior of the Philistines, Israel’s
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The post below was previously published in October 2022. Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin, Sin! There, I said it seven times to prove that my head would not explode, that lightening would not immediately strike me, nor would I melt like the wicked witch of the West in Wizard of Oz upon saying it.
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A number of years ago, I was conducting a Saturday evening chapel service at Grace Centers of Hope, a residential ministry to those struggling with homelessness and drug addiction. I began the service by offering ten dollars to the first person who could tell me what the number one cause of death in the United
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“In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up, and the train of His robe filled the temple. Above it stood seraphim; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one
One of the more concerning and disturbing events in the Bible is found in Leviticus 10:1-3, involving the two eldest sons of Aaron, Nadab and Abihu. They had recently been consecrated, set apart by God as priests who would intercede for the people of Israel, offering prayer and sacrifices according to God’s specific instructions found
There was a controversial, yet well intentioned commercial that ran in the first quarter of this year’s “Super Bowl”. It was a one-minute string of 12 dramatized photos, depicting various types of people washing the feet of others, with related background music (John 13:1-17). At the end of it are flashed the words: “Jesus Didn’t