Monthly Letters

As we read through the Bible this month, we are certainly going to see a lot of confrontation. The most striking confrontation will not be one between men or nations, it won’t even be one that is directly stated, but it will be one that

It’s common to refer to someone as being "the apple of my eye" which expresses that they are someone very important to us. This phrase traces its origin to the Bible! In Deuteronomy 32:10 the LORD speaks about His people figured as their forefather Jacob/Israel

As we begin the Bible anew this year, I’m struck with how much of our understanding of the world is influenced be how we see its beginning. Most people in the West have been trained to forget that God had anything to do with the

Where there is a beginning, there is an end. The Bible tells us that the universe and all things in it were created in the beginning. So, the question is: When will the end be? That question was answered by Jesus Christ in Matthew 24

Words have tremendous power! Yet in today's world, words are cheap; they tend to mean everything and nothing at the same time. We can point out something and it be taken in a derogatory way, and then be accused of hate speech. But depending on

For so many years man was fallen in sin without God’s promised Messiah to help him. Since Genesis 3:15-17, God had promised a way to redeem man from his sinful curse, but He seemed to be very late in fulfilling it. It is interesting how

The problem with discerning truth today is not that we have the ability make decisions about what truth is, but that we are limited in discovering the truth from the sources we have. The Bible is available to everyone in the Western world. If we

There are many people today who claim to be a prophet. But what does that mean? A prophet, according to common understanding, is someone who hears the LORD in his spirit and tells others what God is saying for us right now. But how do

A prophet is called by God to speak on His behalf. A prophecy is spoken in a variety of ways, such as moral judgment, a call to action and repentance, a prediction of what will happen, and so on. But despite the differences in subject

In Hebrew, wisdom means, “to be prudent, to be circumspect, to have understanding”. Israel’s contribution to wisdom literature is to place all wisdom in the context of faith in the LORD. What is interesting about biblical wisdom is that it requires us to think about