We are told that following the first Passover, God brought Israel out of Egypt with a strong hand. At the same time, He informed Israel of the law of the firstborn. Previously God through Moses told the Israelites that all the firstborn in the land of Egypt (i.e. Egyptians) would be killed after the Passover.…

If we are honest with ourselves, we don’t always have the feeling that God is relevant to our everyday lives. I don’t mean in the overall sense of knowing God’s plan and purpose. I am thinking of something more up close and personal. The longer time goes on, with the subsequent increase of corruption in…

Madagascar Travelogue — March 2019 With bad weather abounding, my wife and I boarded a London to Paris flight on Sunday afternoon (March 10th) in order to be safely and certainly in Paris for our flight to Antananarivo (often called Tana) the next day. Leaving Monday morning around 10:30 we arrived in Tana the same day, eleven uneventful hours…

If Christ were to run for political office today, would He be elected? (Of course we, as followers of God, do not involve ourselves in the politics of this world. But to make an important point, let us continue.)  Hypothetically, we could reason and say, “Well He is honest in all His dealings, He is…

Job made an interesting observation when he was answering his friends’ accusations as to why so many bad things had happened to him. “A lamp is despised to the thought of one who is at ease; it is made ready for those whose feet slip” (Job 12:5). While the structure of this verse might at…

In May of 1992, former US President George Bush Sr. shared with the nation a firmly held belief. “Government cannot solve all the problems. We may be able to make good laws, but it’s never been able to make good men. That doesn’t come from Big Brother. It comes from your family. It comes from…

How important are relationships within the Body of Christ? This question is prompted by the state of affairs in what we broadly refer to as “the world.” The world is a generic term for planet earth and all life on it, including human civilization. We use it generally to address our environment. Currently, much press…

Recently I read a statement made by a major religious denomination based in the United States that surprised me. They wrote, “Divine grace is needed by every soul in consequence of the Fall of Adam …”. What is meant by “soul” is not stated, but the belief in the “fall of Adam” is linked to…

In the beginning, God said, “…Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness…” (Genesis 1:26). What a privilege God has given us — out of all His vast creation. King David was both humbled and thankful for the understanding of such a privilege too. “I will praise You, for I am fearfully…

When we respond to Christ’s direction to “go into your room and when you have shut the door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place,” what visualization of God forms in your mind? When we talk to another person face to face, we see the person we are talking to, and most…

There is one subject where practically everyone in the world is in agreement. That is the idea that “everybody else has it better than I do!”. Who doesn’t know someone for whom things are not going “better” than for me? Despite the fact that, in the western world, we live in one of the most…

There are numerous words that we use in our daily vocabulary that have changed meaning over the years. For example, not very long ago the word “gay” had a totally different connotation than it does today. Have we allowed ourselves to appropriate a meaning to the word “Gentile” that was not intended? In Galatians the…

banner /–> The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Theresa May, told the country in her New Year message that if her Brexit deal was passed by Parliament, the country could move forward together and begin a new chapter. The government could then work on fixing important domestic issues. If it were only that simple.…