Psalm 114:1-8 – 1 When Israel came out of Egypt—the house of Jacob from a people who spoke a foreign language—2 Judah became his sanctuary, Israel, his dominion. 3 The sea looked and fled; the Jordan turned back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, the hills, like lambs. 5 Why was it, sea, that you f
The majority of us have either heard someone say, or we have said to someone, “Christianity is not a religion, it’s a _____________.”It is a relationship with Jesus Christ the living God who rose from the dead and is alive forevermore.When we say, “Christianity isn’t a religion,” we mean that our ow
Jesus said “As the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark…” (Matthew 24:37-38).If you have read Genesis, you know that Jesus was desc
In 1982, Canadian rock band Loverboy made a bold claim: Everybody’s working for the weekend. Not Dashrath Manjhi. He was working for a much different reason. He gave himself a project: carve a path through a mountain ridge in eastern India. This little road would be just 360 feet long, 30 feet wide,
President Donald Trump is not the first to use derogatory names for political opponents; it has a long history.Publisher James Callender called our second POTUS, John Adams, a “hideous hermaphroditical character which has neither the force and firmness of a man, nor the gentleness and sensibility of
Pro-Palestine, Anti-Israel protests on college campuses dominated the news this past week. Jewish students were redirected “for their own safety.” They were told to go home and stay home. Several schools told students to finish their semester online.I read an article this week about the early stages
Hundreds of years before Columbus discovered the new world, the city of Cahokia was one of earth’s great metropolises. It was built in what is now southern Illinois, just west of modern day St. Louis, and inhabited by a people group that modern researchers call the “Mississippians.”Cahokia was an im
Ephesians 4:1 – Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have receivedBe All You Can Be is one of the most effective marketing slogans of all time. Many of you can probably sing the jingle from those classic commercials.I didn’t realize the U.S. Army had reti
“Are we there yet?”Script writers know that they can elicit a response by having a character ask, but since it is so over-used, they must be creative about it.One of the best exchanges ever is in Avengers: Infinity War. On the way to Nidavellir, Thor responds to “I am Groot” with “You’ll know when w
I feel a little like comedian Jim Gaffigan.Every time I’ve watched him, he does a string of jokes on a single topic. Somewhere along the way he mimics the audience, saying something like, “How many horse jokes does this guy have?”Our weekly Prophecy Update has been dominated by what is going on in I
If you do a Google search for the phrase, “God has some explaining to do,” you will be met with many results from Christians and non-Christians and pretend Christians alike. Usually the articles are about suffering or after some tragic event. How could God allow something terrible to happen?I listen
Jesus accepted enough dinner invitations to be criticized as “a glutton and a drunk, a friend of tax collectors and sinners”[1]He attended a wedding in Cana where He functioned as sommelier (suh-muhl-yay).He invited Himself to pop-in for a pop-up dinner with tax collector Zacchaeus.He catered wilder
If ever there was a time to get excited about the Bible’s Last Days prophecies it is now.The major trends revealed in the Bible are converging: A one-world government, a global economy, a ‘mark’ of some kind that is necessary for a person to access all products & services, weird marriages and geneti
In 1898, two maneless, male lions terrorized the Tsavo region of Kenya. They dragged off and devoured human victims almost daily, and were particularly focused on a British construction camp. Thousands of Indian and African workers were there, building a bridge over the Tsavo river. The estimated nu
Christians who held a conviction that it was wrong for them to watch a Rated R movie were conflicted: How could they not join their brothers & sisters who rented-out theaters and invite unbelievers to watch The Passion of the Christ?It was the top-grossing Rated R movie of all time. It has since sli
An embassy is the primary diplomatic mission in a foreign country’s capital, while a consulate is a smaller mission in a major city.Israel on Monday struck an Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria, and killed a number of senior leaders of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to the Pen
The opening 24 minutes of Saving Private Ryan changed movies forever. Spielberg’s epic set a new standard for brutality and intensity that filmmakers have been imitating ever since.Nahum chapter 2 is like the opening of Saving Private Ryan. It depicts the fall of Nineveh in shocking, visceral terms.
Before his death in 2018, Stan Lee was known as the king of cameos. He had over 130 acting credits, but it’s in the MCU where his appearances were most appreciated. He showed up 38 times in Marvel movies.[1] He was a WWII general, a mental patient, a dog-walker, a galactic barber, an oblivious libra
“Mission Accomplished.”On May 1, 2003, President George W. Bush gave a televised speech on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Bush, who had launched the US led invasion of Iraq six weeks earlier, mounted a podium before a White House-produced banner that said Mission Accomplished. He said, “M
There are an estimated 500 future Bible prophecies yet to be fulfilled. Since God has 100% accuracy in prophecy, we know everything He recorded for us in the Bible that has not happened, will happen. We reserve a few minutes Sunday morning to suggest news, or trends, that seem to be predicted by a l
In 1969, Bill True and Bruce Brubaker boarded a plane flying north from Ottawa to a remote fishing camp. Their heavily loaded Cessna shuddered as it headed into a storm. As they dodged fearsome clouds, the pilot said he had good news and bad news. “What’s the bad news?” Brubaker asked. “We’re lost.”
“Jabba, this is your last chance. Free us or die”Luke Skywalker’s confidence was remarkable considering he didn’t have his light saber and was walking a precarious plank over the Great Pit of Carkoon and its hungry inhabitant, the Sarlaac.No worries. He was in complete control. (I thought the strang
There are an estimated 500 future Bible prophecies yet to be fulfilled. Since God has 100% accuracy in prophecy, we know everything He recorded for us in the Bible will happen.We reserve a few minutes Sunday morning to suggest news, or trends, that seem to be predicted by a literal, futurist reading
In 1996, two American analysts coined the term shock and awe to describe the US Army’s onslaught against the Iraqi military during Operation Desert Storm. Shock and Awe is a strategy based on rapid dominance of an enemy through overwhelming force.We may have come up with the slogan, but we didn’t co
