Are Your Steps Ordered By the Lord? Psalm 37:23
July 25th, 2009 | Day of the Lord | 3 Comments
One item that is important on the agenda of God is that of order. Countless examples in scripture demonstrate the order that God used in both creating and maintaining our world. Are your steps ordered by the Lord? Psalms 37:23. Reading the first chapter of Genesis, we can see an orderliness in the manner in which God proceeded from one creative act to the other.
When we think of the Exodus, Moses led over a 600,000 people out of Egypt, not counting women and children. They marched in orderly ranks. “So God led the people around by the way of ...
If Ham and Eggs Can Talk, Why Can’t the Star...
June 8th, 2009 | Day of the Lord | 1 Comment
If I were you, I would be a bit curious of a title, If Ham and Eggs Can Talk, Why Can't the Stars, in the Day of the Lord? Don't you think it's a rather
interesting eschatological theme? Well, here's what provoked the title.
As a child I remember growing up watching the Little Rascals on TV, before going to school. On one episode, a Stymie persuaded whom I vaguely
remember might have been his friends to cook him some ham and eggs. He told him that ham and eggs could talk. Well, after a little persuasion and
determination, they fried some ham and ...
What Were Moses’ Secrets of Successful Livin...
May 26th, 2009 | Christianity | No Comment
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By any definition, Moses' life was a tremendous success. Success leaves footprints for others to follow. While many examples from Moses could be chosen, for our purposes, we will select three. Before we examine them, let's take a look at some of the factors in Moses background to show that one can succeed in spit of many obstacles. Moses was born into slavery. He then became a basket case, being placed in the Nile River. He lost his job of being prince of Egypt, became a fugitive after murdering an Egyptian for ...
Has the Church Misunderstood Israel’s Land P...
April 23rd, 2009 | Eschatology | No Comment
Was Walvoord Correct in His Assessment of the Land Promise?
Most of the focus of the church on Israel involves the land promise made in Genesis 12:7. As the late Dr. Walvoord remarked in His book, Prophecy, 14 Essential Keys to Understanding the Final Drama: “The giving of the land to Abraham’s descendants has become a watershed in the study of prophecy, p. 39-40. The tendency has been to deny this is a literal promise. For Walvoord, every mention of the land God promised Abraham literally
included the area from the river of Egypt to the River Euphrates, per Gen. 15:15–18). He contended ...
Is Christ Coming on the Clouds?
December 27th, 2008 | Eschatology | 1 Comment
Some 30 years ago, my wife and our
youngest daughter were playing in
our backyard.
It was a rather large back yard, and
one of the features that sold us on
the house.
We we looking for plenty of room for
our three children to play without
wandering into the streets. Then
one afternoon, while playing in the
backyard, we heard this loud boom from what sounded like an explosion. The next thing we saw was a ball of fire and objects falling from the sky.
Our daughter terrified with fear, began to cry. While my wife’s motherly instinct overcame my curiosity of what had happened, she ran straight for my daughter, ...