For seven years Israel had been the victim of vexation from the Midianites, Amalekites, and others, whose chosen attack was especially insidious, because it struck at the very heart of human existence: the need for food. Each year they would observe the Israelites plant...
How would you respond if someone said that you are slothful? If you think that slothful means lazy, you would no doubt be very offended. No one wants to be called lazy under any circumstances, because such persons are looked down on by others....
“I find no fault in this man,” said Pilate to the chief priests and rulers of the Jewish people who had arrested Jesus and brought Him to the Roman governor to be put to death (Luke 23:4 & 14). Having been warned by his...
In his first letter to the Thessalonians, Paul wrote that twice he had tried to come to visit and minister to the church there, “but Satan hindered us” (1Thess.2:18). The Greek word for hindered is EGKOPTO and was originally used to describe a road...
Growing up in church, I often heard preachers talk about “the line of demarcation”, but I wasn’t sure exactly what they meant. I pictured in my mind a literal line that divided saved people from lost, and that stepping over from the saved side...