Last week, we asked the question, “What would this world have been like if God had not intervened?” Noah’s world gives some insight into this when every thought of mankind was continually evil. God did not leave this world without hope and revealed His expectation of holiness through Moses and the prophets. Yet, in spite of this, the world almost totally forgot…

For families with children, summer is the highlight of the year…at least for the kids!  If summer could last for 12 months, there would be great celebrations in some households!  Nevertheless, as happens every year, summer comes to an end and it’s time to go back to school. One of the challenges of going back to school is getting back into a…

Two men, Vizzini and Inigo, stand on top of the Cliffs of Insanity.  Vizzini cuts the rope that the man in black is using to climb. The man in black didn’t fall. Vizzini shouts, “He didn’t fall?! Inconceivable!” Inigo replies, “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” We’ve all been there, not on…

It is difficult for us to imagine, but have you ever thought what this world would be like if God had totally removed Himself from it? What if when every thought of man was on evil continually, He had decided to not send the flood? Or what if He had not dealt with Sodom and Gomorrah? Suppose He had not descended to…

There were some individuals in the lifetime of Jesus who were having a very difficult time accepting that He had authority in religious matters and, therefore, that He had authority in their lives.  They were constantly questioning and challenging that authority, as they did vehemently even in the week leading up to His death.  They confronted Him in Matthew 21:23, “By what…

“Let me sing now for my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning His vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard on a fertile hill. He dug it all around, removed its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine. And He built a tower in the middle of it and also hewed out a wine vat in it; then He expected it to produce good grapes, but it produced only worthless ones” (Isa. 5:1-2).…

The story Jesus told about the man who had two sons is well understood by most parents. The father in this story wanted both of his sons to go work in the vineyard, so he told both of them to immediately go to work. The first son said, “I will not,” and the second son said, “I will” (Matt. 21:28-29). The rebellious…

My college roommate and I (both of us were Bible majors) used to play a game with each other.  He had a small dry erase board that we attached to the front of our small refrigerator.  Each day one of us would write a verse on the board.  The challenge was for the other guy to figure out where that verse was…