At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered [...]
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. – 2 Timothy 3:1 Have you ever heard someone suggest that if you just trust Jesus, He’ll solve all your problems and you’ll float through life with riches and peace? If that were the way God planned it for the people who serve Him, then what [...]
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. – Acts 5:29 In his powerful book Unspeakable, Os Guinness wrestles with the problem of evil in this world. In one section, focuses on the Nuremberg trials that followed World War II. The Nazis stood charged with crimes [...]
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy. – 2 Chronicles 36:16 “I love my job,” said Maggie, a young nurse, “but it’s so frustrating when I tell people what they need to [...]
For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD. – Kings 13:9 An experiment with teenagers showed how they handle peer pressure. Groups of 10 adolescents were brought into a room and instructed to raise their hands when the teacher pointed to the longest line on three charts. Nine of the people [...]