Editor’s Note: Part one of this article can be found in the March 2023 edition of The Gospel Message. Jeremiah’s godly service was in stark contrast to Balaam’s. Jeremiah is known as “the weeping prophet” not only because of his own problems (which were real and great) but also: Because of the wickedness of his…
“What’s love got to do with it?” This is the question Tina Turner belts out in her distinctive raspy voice as she sings the title to the song written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle, which started being played on the radio in 1984. The “it” the song refers to speaks strictly of gratifying physical…
Paul recounted in 2 Corinthians 11:24 that among his labors and sufferings for the sake of Christ, he’d been beaten five times by fellow Jews with “forty lashes minus one.” That description was uniquely Jewish. Neither the Romans nor any other ancient nation had a similar limitation. God’s word in Deuteronomy 25:3 stated that a…