The LORD your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your fellow Israelites. You must listen to him. Deuteronomy 18:15 This is one of the two most important prophecies of the Old Testament. So important was it that the Pharisees had this...

7What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not! Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law. For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8But sin, seizing the...

18Still another angel, who had charge of the fire, came from the altar and called in a loud voice to him who had the sharp sickle, “Take your sharp sickle and gather the clusters of grapes from the earth’s vine, because its grapes are ripe.” 19The angel swung his...

God As A Lover? In recent years, the Song of Solomon has become viewed as an instruction manual for romantic relationships. Whereas there are some good points to be learned from it for that purpose, most of Christian history has not treated it that way. Solomon, whose...

Revenge is one of the most basic human instincts. When we are wronged, we want to lash back at people and let them have what is coming to them. Go to any preschool and watch two and three year-olds play and you will quickly see that revenge is one of the first things...

We live in a world of self-help and self-made men. The self-help and business educational markets are multi-billion dollar industries world-wide. We seek to discover how we can forge our own paths and create the lives and lifestyles of our own choosing. Our selfish...

Many times today we hear about God as a “fluffy bunny” kind of deity. He loves us, He wants the best for us and He just can’t wait for us to realize this and come back to Him. While this is all true, it doesn’t tell the whole story. It makes God look like a pitiful...

When David brought the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem, he established men to play instruments and sing and pray before it 24/7 as described in 1 Chronicles 25. Because singing around the clock could become monotonous and the men may run out of things to sing and...

One of the most prominent aspects of God’s nature in scripture is that of judge. This is one aspect of God that has become increasingly unpopular today in America, but it is one of the more important parts of who God is to us. One of the reasons people have begun to...

As America drifts further away from God, our Christian culture seems to be losing its understanding of who God truly is. Even the church is guilty of creating a God of our own choosing. Instead, we should seek to understand the God who is, and conform our lives to His...