An Amazing Prophecy: Daniel’s Seventy Weeks (Part 1)
Years ago, while living in Miami Beach, Florida myself, along with two other Jewish men (one of them my brother), shared the Gospel with some ultra-Orthodox rabbis. As I eavesdropped on the conversation my brother struck up with one of the rabbis, the words I...
Is It Safe?
Recently, I had major dental work done. Most people dread going to the dentist and I am among them. It didn’t help that when I went (twice in a short span). I kept replaying in my mind a scene from a movie starring Dustin Hoffman. In the movie, Laurence Olivier...
Word and Power Church
“But Jesus answered them, ‘You are wrong, because you know neither the Scriptures nor the power of God…’This is part of our Lord’s answer to Sadducees who tried to trap him in something he said during Passion Week. They were the political power in Jesus’ day who...
Healing and Beyond: What I’d like to say to two groups
In this blog, I would like to clearly address two groups: those who hold to a Cessationist view regarding the spiritual gifts, specifically the gifts of healing; and those who believe and regularly practice the gifts of healing. From the outset, let me say...
The Three Most Powerful Words Ever Uttered
“When Jesus had received the sour wine,he said, “It is finished,” and he bowedhis head and gave up his spirit.” ...
Telling the WHOLE Truth
A few days ago, I heard a friend relate a conversation he had with a relative who claims to be a Christian yet, presently lives an immoral lifestyle. When my friend tried to reprove her, her response was typical of many in a post-modern world: She turned on my...
Gospel-Based Discipleship
Recently a dear friend, a man I have spent considerable time over the years thanked me for helping him to be a better husband and father. What is significant about that is I cannot ever remember having counseled he and his wife. Nor have I ever spoken to him about...
A Lasting Legacy
Have you had a spiritual mentor who God used to strengthen, define, or refine God’s call? A couple of weeks ago, I lost a friend who had a great impact on my life and not mine only, but thousands of others as well. His name was George Bogle, and he was well known...
Keep a Close Watch on Yourself (I Timothy 4:16)
The Evangelical world was rocked recently when it learned that one of the world’s leading Christian apologists, Ravi Zacharias, engaged in years of sexual misconduct. This is the conclusion his own ministry came to after hiring a group of independent investigators...
The Greatest Interview
While working out this morning I had a strange thought: ‘What was it like when Larry King, the consummate interviewer, passed from this life and faced his own interview with the Greatest Interviewer? Scripture teaches that he did face his own interview the moment...
The Dissolution of Cultural Christianity
In recent days, I watched in amazement as our television screens daily broadcast images of civil unrest, the pulling down of statues, not to mention our unparalleled political upheaval. More than once, I turned to my wife after watching a newscast and said,...
The Church Has Left The Building
In Psalm 137, while seated by a river in Babylon, an unnamed Psalmist recounts what it was like to gather with other Israelites at the temple in Jerusalem. Weeping as he remembers Zion, he finds it difficult to sing the Lord’s song when asked by one of his captors....