“And because he was a tentmaker as they were, he stayed and worked with them.” (Acts 18:3) I recently celebrated my 45th Birthday, which has prompted a lot of questions for me about where I am in my Christian walk. I guess my birthday brought an alarming realization with it that I have fewer years left to live than I have lived. I never thought about it that way, but the Bible tells us that we should not expect to live too much beyond 70. I’m not worried […]

“There was nothing beautiful or majestic about his appearance, nothing to attract us to him.” (Isaiah 53:2) With the exception of the above verse, the Bible tells us very little about how Jesus looked. If that’s the case, then where did we get that picture of Jesus that hangs over some of our mantles? While there is no biblical support for the picture that our minds conjure up when we think about Jesus, some theologians claim that it came from eyewitness accounts. In his book, The Resurrection Tomb, […]

“But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.” (2 Timothy 3:1) Tomorrow is the third anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing. Do you remember where you were when you heard the fretful news? Whenever there is a national tragedy, we always seem to remember where we were when we learned of it. I remember where I was when President Kennedy was assassinated, when the Challenger exploded, and when the Edward P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was bombed. Isn’t it astonishing at how […]

“See my servant will act wisely; he will be raised and lifted up and highly exalted.” (Isaiah 52:13) Michelangelo once turned to a fellow artist and said with frustration in his voice, “Why do you keep filling gallery after gallery with endless pictures on the one theme of Christ in weakness, Christ on the cross, and most of all, Christ hanging dead?” he asked. “Why do you concentrate on the passing episode as if it were the last work, as if the curtain dropped down there on disaster […]