Our public school system has systematically and consistently crumbled since 1980 when the Department of Education was formed in the United States under the Jimmy Carter administration. I remember when George W. Bush pushed his “No Child Left Behind” mantra, which sounded nice but had no teeth. According to World Population Review: Ironically, despite the United…
Most of us easily agree with Scripture that murderers are worthy of death. They took another person’s life; they brought death upon themselves. In societies like our “advanced” one, it is, perhaps, more difficult to agree with Scripture that those who commit sexual immorality are worthy of death. Today, we will see a few other…
Previously, we looked at God’s penalty for murder, the shedding of innocent blood, and we saw that God demands the death penalty in such cases. In addition, God holds the town or city or government responsible for not putting to death men convicted of murder (by at least two witnesses). God is not suggesting this;…
I have said it myself, and I’ve heard many say, “All sin is worthy of death.” In the cosmic sense, this is true, as the root of all sin is our selfishness and pride and desire to control our own lives like our first parents. However, in the social sense of justice which God outlines…
All three synoptic gospel writers (Matthew, Mark, and Luke) record Jesus’ teaching on marriage and divorce and remarriage. We usually turn to Matthew because it seems the most comprehensive, but let’s glance at Mark’s account today. 2 And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce…
Among David’s three chief mighty men stood Shammah, the son of Agee the Hararite. The Philistines gathered together at Lehi, where there was a plot of ground full of lentils, and the Israelites fled from the Philistines. But Shammah took his stand in the midst of the plot and defended it and struck down the…
Greeks and Romans and many other nations had male and female gods, but Israel had only one God who called Himself by masculine pronouns. In an age where everyone is so concerned about using proper pronouns, how about not misgendering the God of the Bible, eh? When Christ entered the world around 2,000 years ago,…
I used to teach homeschool classes in which the parents sat with their students. I taught English and Writing. Sometimes a student would ask, “Why do we have to know this?” And often, a sage parent would answer, “Because you’ll use it in college.” I hated that answer. Was that our end goal of learning—to…
The memory of the righteous is a blessing,but the name of the wicked will rot. (Prov. 10.7) President Biden likes to say, “History will judge…” Indeed, historians judge from all kinds of angles, but God is the real judge. No matter how we attempt to rewrite and organize the facts, God knows the truth, and…
Warriors harden themselves against the reality of their own imminent death as they take the battlefield. They intend victory, but they understand their own mortality, and if their life should be taken by another warrior, they submit to an honorable death. But no warrior wants to be killed by someone weaker than he. Recall Abimelech,…