CGG Weekly first published this essay as “Prophecy’s Place” on February 7, 2003. “For we know in part and we prophesy in part.” —I Corinthians 13:9 Bible students know that Scripture is about thirty percent prophecy, and preachers have cautioned that prophecy should take no more than the equivalent percentage …
This essay, “Like All the Nations,” was first published in the CGG Weekly on January 3, 2003. “Now make for us a king to judge us like all the nations.” —I Samuel 8:5 American schools used to teach history. When they did, they taught about the founding fathers and the …
The following is an edited snip from a sermon, “Habakkuk,” that I gave on October 2, 1997. “The burden which the prophet Habakkuk saw.” —Habakkuk 1:1 Habakkuk provides a very simple introduction. He does not write, “In the tenth year, in the tenth month of the reign of a certain …
I wrote this essay, originally “Connecting the Dots,” for CGG Weekly on October 25, 2002. “Alas, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a brood of evildoers, children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked to anger the Holy One of Israel, they have turned away …
This essay, “Lessons from a Stiff Neck,” was first published in CGG Weekly on October 18, 2002. “. . . for I know your rebellion and your stiff neck.” —Deuteronomy 31:27 From time to time, I have had to endure a stiff neck. When I was young, it was a …
Originally “We Persuade Men,” this CGG Weekly essay first appeared on July 12, 2002. “Knowing, therefore, the terror of the Lord, we persuade men. . . .” —II Corinthians 5:11 The apostle Paul writes in II Corinthians 5:9-11: Therefore we make it our aim . . . to be well pleasing …
