Today, May 1st, is May Day. May Day is not just a day where children innocently gambol around maypoles and have fun. As we will see, May Day sinks its roots deep down into the extreme depths of paganism. It is one of the eight days of …
Revelation 5:11-14 is the source of the finale of George Frideric Handel's acclaimed oratorio, Messiah: Then I looked, and I heard the voice of many angels around the throne, the living creatures, and the elders; and the number of them …
On a street corner of a crowded city, a young man in threadbare clothes stands on a pine box, a worn Bible clutched in one hand. He shouts at the hustling passersby, "God is not mocked! We will reap what we have sown! The end is coming …

(14) And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying, (15) “Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water. (16) So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.” (17) Then Jesus answered and said, “O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.” (18) And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour. (19) Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why could we not cast it out?" (20) So Jesus said to them, "Because of your unbelief; for assuredly, I say to you, if you have faith as a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, "Move from here to there," and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you. (21) However, this kind does not go out except by prayer and fasting."
Jesus walked with His disciples from Bethsaida to the neighborhood of Caesarea Philippi. Six to eight days later, Jesus went up into a high mountain to pray, taking Peter, James, and John with Him and leaving His other nine disciples …
As the world continues to reel and lurch, tossed about by strong and conflicting forces, one cannot have a conversation for long before the well-worn topics of leadership and government arise. The man or woman at the helm — whether local, national, or global — is continually watched, praised, and pilloried, depending on a person's assessment of his actions relative to what he would do in his stead. Love it or loathe it, our leadership—those individuals or bodies of men and women who greatly influence what course our life will take—is constantly in our purview. Conversations about …
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