When I was a baby Christian, during my college days, a friend of mine and I enjoyed going to a little chapel across from the university campus, where we would praise God loudly and joyfully. It was just fun. The Psalm writers loved to praise God. In three of the Read more…
Several years ago, in chapter 11 of my first book, Beyond Blind Faith, entitled “Apocalypse Soon,” I wrote this: People have been predicting the end of the world for thousands of years, and it hasn’t happened yet. But things may be different today. The prophets of doom this time are not Read more…
In my Webster’s dictionary, the first four definitions of “peace” all concern the absence of war or conflict. But in the New Testament, peace means so much more than this, because Jesus and his disciples had at least three additional meanings in mind. One was the peace with other people Read more…
2 Samuel 6:12-23 presents the image of David’s wife, Michal, watching King David dancing for joy before the Lord—and despising him. That image should bother us. People worship God in different ways—in some churches the people are relatively quiet and subdued, while in others the people dance and clap during Read more…