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,…
It should be well known that Christians are the most peaceful of all people. We do not wield literal swords and guns to fight for our spiritual cause. Many Christians over the years have submitted meekly and humbly to sometimes horrific deaths because they refused to renounce the name of Jesus. They followed Jesus. As…
As a teenager, I recall a strong desire to be free of my parents’ command and overwatch. If only I could do what I wanted when I wanted—how wonderful would that be? As a parent, I now explain to my kids what my parents taught me. They cannot be free until they take full responsibility…
A sweet friend of mine gifted me some daylilies from her garden. The best place I could put them was in my front beds, which had not been weeded for a while, so I rose early in the morning to weed the beds before I placed the new plants. Let me tell you. It had…
Sometimes we seem to have a split personality as Christians, and we often do not think critically or logically about our faith. What do we really believe about our Lord Jesus Christ? When He says, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth,” how do we understand that? Do we think…
Have you heard France just enshrined the “right to abortion” in its constitution? NPR correspondent Eleanor Beardsley covered the story in her article “France makes history by enshrining abortion rights in its constitution”.[1] She says France made this move as a fearful response to the United States overturning Row v. Wade, which did not prohibit…