A relationship with Jesus begins when a person moves from trusting in themselves to trusting Him alone as Savior and Lord. While this initial trust happens at a point in time, this trust in and for Jesus will deepen over… Read More
Resolute
Last week we saw Jesus in anguish, pouring out His heart in prayer. The conclusion was that Jesus resolved to become the sin-bearer and endure the wrath of God in order to provide a pathway back to the Father. Today,… Read More
The Tell-Tale Sign of Western Civilization’s Decline
On this day in 1978 the following words were spoken by Alexander Solzhenitsyn at Harvard’s Commencement address: “The West has finally achieved the rights of man, and even to excess, but man’s sense of responsibility to God and society has… Read More
A Warning We All Need
A man will not be established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous will not be moved. Proverbs 12:3 Charles Swindoll reminds of a warning we all need to heed: “I want to be quite direct with you. Secular… Read More
How can a Monk and Bloody Vikings from 998 A.D. Help Us Today?
In 998, a ruthless Viking army raided the Dorset countryside in southwest England near the rural Cernel monastery. Forty-something-year-old Aelfric, a monk at Cernel, responded to this national—and, to him, universal—crisis by creating three homiletic collections (about 120 sermons), the… Read More