Last summer I spent a month at Wittenberg University in Germany studying with and teaching at night twenty-six divinity school students on the biblical view of courtship, singleness, loneliness, sex, lust, marriage, and Jesus Christ. Wittenberg is the city of the Reformation and Martin Luther. Some 60,000 people live there now. At night our group […]
Destiny
Destiny… The flow of people and politics… The river cultures, the Code of Hammurabi, Abraham, Pharaoh, Moses, the Decalogue, Joshua, Deborah, Saul, David and Solomon, the Assyrian Conquest, Jeremiah, Cyrus, Nehemiah, Alexander the Great, Pompey, Herod, Christ, Paul, Origen, Polycarp, Alaric the Hun, Augustine, Francis, Mohammed, Charles Martel, Huss, Luther, Newton, Nietzsche, Beethoven, Columbus, Wagner, […]
All It Takes to Be Happy!
Do you have a sense of contentment? Without a house, a change of clothes, health, a car freedom, spouse, well-cooked food, and a salary, the apostle Paul could say, “Not that I complain of want: for I have learned in whatever state I am, to be content” (Philippians 4:11). Paul wrote that while in jail! […]
The River, The Canyon…And Creation Science!
My, my, how Jesus works! Eight years ago Paula was turning forty. She was a pilot, single, and a beloved member of our Burlington church. To avoid a “black” birthday party, she and several girlfriends booked a rafting trip through the Grand Canyon. Tom was her river guide. In his late 40’s, bearded, he was […]
Authority
There is the story of three major league baseball umpires in a bar before the game. “I call ’em like I see ’em,” the first ump says. “I call ’em as they are!” the second umpire states. “They ain’t nothing until I call ’em, then that’s what they are!” growled the third official. It’s the […]
Hitchhikers’ Galaxy Guide
There are approximately 733,746 words in the Bible. It was written over a span of 1,600 years. Some 40 different authors penned its pages–from Moses writing in North Africa about 1500 B.C. to the Apostle John writing off the coast of Turkey around 100 A.D. Its authors came from every walk of life: kings (Song […]
