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In February of 1980, the Cold War between the US and Russia was not only cold, it was icy. The US was in a bad emotional place with long gas lines but also depressed by the hostages taken by Iran in 1979 still being held (and the ill-fated rescue mission yet to take place). The…

One of the exhortations that we see over and over throughout Scripture, from the Old Testament through the New, is to bear fruit. Jesus said we would be KNOWN by it. In our consumerist culture, however, we are often confused about what that means. In business, it means profits, production, etc. In politics, it means…

When you walk into a dark room, what’s the first thing you do?  You feel for the light switch.  You want to illuminate the room. When Wile E. Coyote thinks of another way to catch the Roadrunner, what appears above his head?  He has an illuminating thought. God has illuminated His Word so we will have…

St. Augustine is a famous church father for many reasons, full of powerful observations and insights. One idea he advocates is that there are two “books” that reveal the Father to us: the Bible and Nature (Romans 1:19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them.…

Pastor Harry preached this past Sunday on the law; rules God established in the first five books of the Bible, and how these rules instructed the Israelites to be holy, or set apart, for God.  He also contrasted how being holy under the law is different from being holy following Christ’s death on the cross.…

Joshua 5:13 Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?” 14 “Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.”…

The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language defines the word eternal, in part, as 1. Being without beginning or end; 2. Continuing without interruption; perpetual. When pressed to imagine inherent things that might have been evident throughout the world’s history, we might say air, light, or water. But on second thought, we know that…

“The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven.” We have been talking the past couple of Sunday about different challenges we face…

From a heat perspective, the week of August 20, 2023 was as brutal as any I’ve witnessed in central Arkansas.  Not only was it a scorcher of a week, it was without precipitation, making the humid heat seem worse.  When it is dry for any length of time during the summer, I find myself watching…

C.S. Lewis is quoted quite a bit in this little blog. He was hugely influential in his time and his writings continue to resonate today. He was a medieval scholar who wrote incredible works on the literature of that time, but most people know him for his writings in the realm of apologetics. What was…