God’s People, The Seed of Abraham

Editor’s Note:  Brother Dennis submitted this article as one possible interpretation of the passages he explores.  Your editor has included the article not as an endorsement of Brother Dennis’s interpretation, but as an interpretation worthy of consideration.  Your editor encourages the reader to study the matter further. We read in Romans 11:26, “And so all…

The Healer

I was recently asked a question that I found to be very interesting:  “What does the Bible say about Doctors?” which really was directed to a more pointed question, “Is it okay to use doctors, or should God alone be trusted to fix us when our physical bodies fail?” This is a fair question that…

Between the Cherubim

Then Hezekiah prayed before the LORD, and said: “O LORD God of Israel, the One who dwells between the cherubim, You are God, You alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth” (2 Kings 19:15). God revealed His will for the children of Israel at Mount Sinai. Through Moses,…

Dealing with Heartbreak

There are many serious issues we all must deal with in a lifetime.  This is part of living in a physical world with its accompanying limitations and liabilities.  I would like to address a specific issue while coming from a perspective of having to live with one of the most heartbreaking things with which parents…

Are You Looking for God?

Do you ever feel unfulfilled or, incomplete? “…but I still haven’t found what I’m looking for,” sang Bono in the 1980’s. “As the deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you O God. My soul thirsts for you, O God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?”…

Rebuke

“Rebuke is more effective for a wise man than a hundred blows on a fool” (Proverbs 17:10).  Older siblings know better than their younger siblings, so more is expected of them. Parents know better than their children, so more is expected of them. Elders know better than the flock entrusted to them, so more is…

I Have Seen God

It happened on one of our tours of the Bible Lands some years ago.  There is usually very limited rainfall in the Judean desert and down by the Dead Sea, but on this particular day there was an unusually torrential rain.  Our tour bus was traveling southward along the west side of the Dead Sea. …