A variation of this essay, “Facing Persecution,” appeared in CGG Weekly on July 27, 2012. “Yes, and all who desire to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution.” —II Timothy 3:12 Without a doubt, the Western world has “progressed” into a post-Christian age. Christianity is only one among many …
CGG Weekly published this essay, “Beating the Rat Race (Part Four),” on June 18, 2010. “Stand still, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you.” —Numbers 9:8 Numbers 9 contains an incident in which the command to be still plays a noteworthy part. On this occasion, Moses uses …
I wrote “Death Is Not the End (Part Six)” for CGG Weekly on April 16, 2010. “For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.” —Isaiah 65:17 Previously, we learned about the general resurrection, when tens of billions …
This CGG Weekly essay, originally titled “Equalibrium,” first hit the web on June 6, 2003. “Then the LORD raised up judges who delivered them out of the hand of those who plundered them.” —Judges 2:16 God has endowed His creation with a self-adjusting mechanism that, unless altered by cataclysmic forces, brings …
Published in CGG Weekly on November 22, 2001, this essay was originally titled “Moses, Psalmist (Part Three).” “Then Moses and the children of Israel sang this song to the LORD, and spoke, saying, ‘I will sing to the LORD, for He has triumphed gloriously! The horse and its rider He …
This CGG Weekly essay, “Moses, Psalmist (Part Two),” was first published on November 15, 2001. “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” —Psalm 91:1 Moses was the Renaissance Man of his day: prince, general, freedom-fighter, shepherd, leader, prophet, …
This essay was first published as a CGG Weekly essay on July 22, 2016. The online free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, keeps a “List of terror incidents” by month and by year. (For instance, here is the page for 2016.) The list for July 2016, which at this writing covers only July 1-20, …
