Ever since reading about Dietrich Bonhoeffer, there’s been one aspect of his life and service to the Lord that’s bothered me. We know Bonhoeffer best through his book The Cost of Discipleship. It’s here where Bonhoeffer discusses the price that must be paid to serve God in challenging and difficult times. And how hard that…
Prophecy Update: What’s Next?
Two major events happened recently which appear to have significant prophetic implications. In this essay, I want to suggest the possible ramifications flowing from these events. Of course the caveat applies that the author has no special revelations from God, only the speculative imagination that comes from being a fiction author. Event Number One is…
The $100 Challenge
Have you taken the $100 challenge with your faith? Some ambitious secular people do it when they determine they will pursue success at all costs. Maybe it’s something we should consider doing to pursue a life in Christ. Some years ago a fledgling,and highly ambitious, stock market trader by the name of Minervini challenged a…
A Chance Encounter With a Sister in Christ
Away from our normal environs, my wife and I were walking on a Florida beach late in the afternoon when I spotted a younger asian lady sitting alone, reading what could only be a Bible. I resolved on our way back that I would stop and talk with her. When we returned some twenty minutes…
Scoffers & Mockers Then & Now
Back in Ezekiel’s day, he faced much scoffing and mocking when he brought forth the Word of the Lord. Despite being so faithful to God and being a conduit for many messages to the Israelites, their constant scorn of God’s prophetic Word had to weigh on Ezekiel. To reassure him, God spoke extensively about those…
How Preterism Leads to NAR Thinking
Preterism is an eschatological position that believes all or most Bible prophecy was fulfilled by the end of the first century. A couple of years ago some friends from our church spent a week at Bethel Church in Redding, CA, bought a book on partial-preterism from the Bethel bookstore, and recommended I read it since…