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The Anatomy of Arrogance
You felt secure in your wickedness; you said, “No one sees me”; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” Isaiah 47:10 July 14, 2022 Perhaps you have wondered why the Bible gives so much attention to Babylon, especially in…
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When God is Forgotten
Now therefore hear this, you lover of pleasures, who sit securely, who say in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me; I shall not sit as a widow or know the loss of children”. Isaiah 47:8 July 13, 2022 Alexander Solzhenitsyn was described in 1983, upon receiving the Templeton Prize for Progress…
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Pregnant with Evil
“Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.” Psalm 7:14 July 12, 2022 Strange language has entered into news reporting. We read of “pregnant persons.” No, not pregnant women. We are to assume, wrongly, that men can also be pregnant. Of course this is absurd, but as the…
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Truth and Love
“[Love] does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.” 1 Corinthians 13:6 July 8-9, 2022 One of the conceptual causalities of our times is confusion about the relationship between truth and love. Love has been kidnapped and redefined by our secular culture. It has been reduced to whatever makes one feel comfortable. Truth…
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The Pitfall of Pride
“There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes , a lying tongue…” Proverbs 6:16-17 July 7, 2022 Do we hate the things that God hates? If we do, we will hate pride. There is a form of pride that finds satisfaction in the achievement of good things…
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The War on the Womb
“There are six things that the LORD hates, seven that are an abomination to him: haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood…” Proverbs 6:16-17 July 6, 2022 Let us first of all understand what abortion is. It is the extraction or expulsion of the immature human fetus from the mother’s womb prior…
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Feet of Clay
“Now these things happened to them as an example, but they were written down for our instruction, on whom the end of the ages has come.” 1 Corinthians 10:11 July 5, 2022 Have you experienced disappointment in someone you admired as a fellow Christian, but whose private sin spilled over into their public life. To…
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The Danger of Deception
“But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.” 2 Corinthians 11:3 July 1, 2022 None of us like to be deceived. The greatest deceiver in the universe is Satan. He has a bag full of tricks. We…
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The King’s Foreign Policy
“The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his Anointed, saying, ‘Let us burst their bonds apart and cast their cords from us.’” Psalm 2:2-3 June 30, 2022 As believers in Jesus Christ, we know that one day Christ will establish His kingdom on earth. However,…