One of the pagan gods was named Molech (Moloch). His worship became widespread in Israel when Solomon erected his image and altar just outside the walls of Jerusalem in the valley of Hinnom. His worship became part of Jewish idolatry. Read this commonly accepted description of how he was worshiped. The image of Moloch was a human figure with a bull’s head…

Those who attack our faith would have us believe that we have nothing more than blind faith and that we are living in a “dream world” in our view of life and the future. What the world does not understand is that there is insurmountable evidence for our faith. We are not those who have bought into a cunningly devised fable that…

Super Sunday was just that! It was a Super Sunday. If you were not able to be here, you missed one of the most uplifting days in the history of this congregation. Every aspect of our time together, from beginning to end, changed lives. Let me mention some of them. Phil Sanders stated, “Restoration is doctrinal repentance.” I had never thought of…

When it comes to whom you should marry, the Bible is filled with advice. The reason God gave as to why Jews should never allow their children to marry unbelievers was, “They will turn your sons away from following me” (Deut. 7:4). He did not say perhaps it might happen, but it will happen. I marvel that Christian young people (and their…

Ask many students of the Bible about that person who said, “Here am I…,” and they will immediately respond that these words were spoken by Isaiah when God asked, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us” (Is. 6:8)? A similar phrase, “Here I am,” is also found in Isaiah, but very few have noticed it. In the closing chapters…

Do you have a childhood memory of someone trying to annoy you by being a copycat of whatever actions you were doing? Some of those “friends” who did that were not that skilled, but others seemed to have real talent in duplicating your actions. Obviously, none of them reached the level of Marcel Marceau, the famous French mime, who died about two…

Those early Christians sometimes struggled in trying to understand why anyone would hear the gospel and not obey it. Perhaps Paul says it best when he expressed their frustrations with the question, “Have they not heard?” Truth and righteousness meant so much to them and to us that the first response to the world’s disobedience is to think the only reason they…

Christians sometimes have great difficulty in understanding those individuals who have not surrendered their lives to the Lord. We so easily forget that there was that period in our lives when we ignored the Lord. Yet when we became Christians we were so thrilled with the treasures we had found we could not understand the indifference of others. How many times have…