Tim Challies offers another good recommendation for parents, “The Parenting Book Too Few Parents Read.” Acknowledging that rearing children in this culture is difficult, Challies encourages parents to tap the wisdom of experts, those who have already displayed success in this area of life. I believe that many parents fail …
I wrote this essay, “How Far Have We Really Come?” for CGG Weekly on December 6, 2002 (republished on November 25, 2022). “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” —Daniel …
A version of this essay, “Christ as Righteous Judge,” ran in CGG Weekly on May 4, 2012. “The LORD repay your work, and a full reward be given you by the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings you have come for refuge.” —Ruth 2:12 The book of Ruth contains multiple analogies or …
I wrote this essay, “Spiritual Gifts, an Overview,” for CGG Weekly on July 22, 2022. “But each one has his own gift from God, one in this manner and another in that.” —I Corinthians 7:7 Jesus Christ launched His church with a bang on the Pentecost after His resurrection. As Head of …
This essay, “Beating the Rat Race (Part One),” appeared in CGG Weekly on May 28, 2010. “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” —Daniel 12:4 The angel’s description in Daniel …
This essay, “Sacred Cows,” appeared in the November 24, 2006, issue of CGG Weekly. “The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.” —Proverbs 15:14 Even though we live in a world deluged by knowledge—after all, our day is known as the …
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, …
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 …
