The Slaughter of the Innocents
A crazed lunatic – a man with serious emotional health problems – murders twenty innocent children in cold blood. It’s a line that could have been pulled straight out of Saturday’s paper. But it wasn’t. I’m actually describing a part of the Christmas story. When Herod heard there were Magi from the East in Jerusalem, […]
God doesn’t want us to go to the bank…
Acts 16:6-8 (NIV) 6 Paul and his companions traveled throughout the region of Phrygia and Galatia, having been kept by the Holy Spirit from preaching the word in the province of Asia.7 When they came to the border of Mysia, they tried to enter Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus would not allow them to.8 […]
“Who despises the day of small things? Men will rejoice when they see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel… (Zechariah 4:10, NIV) Those words were spoken by the prophet/priest Zechariah somewhere around 538 B.C. Nehemiah had returned to Jerusalem and led the people to rebuild the burned down walls. The remaining Israelites […]
