Friday, November 22, 2019
As a kid, I despised Hannah—the one from the Bible, that is. I could not understand her weepings and disliked this legacy she had passed to me in the form of her name. My namesake, in my arrogant little mind, was almost a crybaby, and thus I missed all the important parts—her faith, her insight, and her beautiful prayer of thanksgiving.
Sunrise over Bethany. Breathtaking. The gloomy stone buildings are touched gently by a rose glow as mist trails down from the hills. Overhead, the gray sky gradually gives way to golden splendor as the sun rises in the remote east. Dark, gnarled, scraggly trees clinging to the jagged rocks bloom […]
“‘Logic!’ said the Professor half to himself. ‘Why don’t they teach logic at these schools? There are only three possibilities. Either your sister is telling lies, or she is mad, or she is telling the truth. You know she doesn’t tell lies and it is obvious that she is not […]
“Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time;” This is the seventh stanza from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, A Psalm of Life. In my last article, I finished the biography of Richard Wurmbrand, the […]
What has Jesus done? What is He doing? And what will He do?
Also, what am I doing about all this?
We need to continually turn back to these basic (but important!) questions as we live in this world, because, whether we admit it or not, the basics are often the first things we forget. And as long as we sin, we desperately need to return to the basics of the gospel and God’s Word.