This essay, “Beating the Rat Race (Part Five),” was published in CGG Weekly on June 25, 2010. “Then she said, ‘Sit still, my daughter, until you know how the matter will turn out; for the man will not rest until he has concluded the matter this day.’” —Ruth 3:18 Another …
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 …
This CGG Weekly essay, “Death Is Not the End (Part Two),” was published on March 19, 2010. “From that time Jesus began to show to His disciples that He must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised the third …
This essay, “Comfort-Zone Christianity?” appeared in CGG Weekly on November 13, 2009. “In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 Over the past several days, I have been very uncomfortable. Since my adrenal fatigue set in during the summer …
I wrote this essay, “Nonsense and Senselessness,” for the August 21, 2009, CGG Weekly. “The LORD will send on you cursing, confusion, and rebuke in all that you set your hand to do, until you are destroyed and until you perish quickly, because of the wickedness of your doings in …
This CGG Weekly essay, “What We Don’t Know,” appeared in the November 4, 2005, issue. “My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.” —Hosea 4:6 During its approach to a mooring mast at Lakehurst Naval Air Station in New Jersey on May 6, 1937, the German dirigible Hindenburg, filled with hydrogen, …
This CGG Weekly essay was first published on May 28, 2021, as “Identifying Our Idols.” “You shall have no other gods before Me.” —Exodus 20:3 Idolatry. It is not a subject that we think about a great deal in this secular world. The word itself suffers abuse in the modern …
This essay, originally “Lesson Learned,” was published in CGG Weekly on May 10, 2002. “When wisdom enters your heart, And knowledge is pleasant to your soul, Discretion will preserve you; Understanding will keep you.” —Proverbs 2:10-11 Yesterday evening, my nine-year-old son, John, learned an important life lesson, “courtesy” of our …
