This essay, “A Culture in Freefall,” was published in CGG Weekly on February 14, 2003. “And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.” —Genesis 2:25 Not too long ago, Americans could sneer across the Atlantic at the abysmal state of European moral standards. A …
CGG Weekly first published this essay as “Prophecy’s Place” on February 7, 2003. “For we know in part and we prophesy in part.” —I Corinthians 13:9 Bible students know that Scripture is about thirty percent prophecy, and preachers have cautioned that prophecy should take no more than the equivalent percentage …
This essay, “Like All the Nations,” was first published in the CGG Weekly on January 3, 2003. “Now make for us a king to judge us like all the nations.” —I Samuel 8:5 American schools used to teach history. When they did, they taught about the founding fathers and the …
The following is an edited snip from a sermon, “Habakkuk,” that I gave on October 2, 1997. “The burden which the prophet Habakkuk saw.” —Habakkuk 1:1 Habakkuk provides a very simple introduction. He does not write, “In the tenth year, in the tenth month of the reign of a certain …
I wrote this essay, originally “Connecting the Dots,” for CGG Weekly on October 25, 2002. “Alas, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked to anger the Holy One of Israel, they have turned away …
This essay, “Lessons from a Stiff Neck,” was first published in CGG Weekly on October 18, 2002. “. . . for I know your rebellion and your stiff neck.” —Deuteronomy 31:27 From time to time, I have had to endure a stiff neck. When I was young, it was a …
Originally “We Persuade Men,” this CGG Weekly essay first appeared on July 12, 2002. “Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. . . .” —II Corinthians 5:11 The apostle Paul writes in II Corinthians 5:9-11: Therefore we make it our aim . . . to be well pleasing …
I wrote this essay, originally titled “The Jewish Testament?” on June 14, 2002, for the CGG Weekly. “But He answered and said, ‘It is written, “Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.”‘” —Matthew 4:4 The Random Bible Verse comment …
