40 One of the two who heard John speak and followed Jesus was Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother. 41 He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means Christ). 42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John. You shall be called…

          The simple believes everything,        but the prudent gives thought to his steps.              16       One who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil,        but a fool is reckless and careless.  In January 1945, a medical doctor named Gordon A. Eadie wrote regarding the rapidly closing WWII, “If they don’t stand for something, they will fall for…

8 The saying is trustworthy, and I want you to insist on these things, so that those who have believed in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works. These things are excellent and profitable for people. 9 But avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, and quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless. If you want…

Of the people of Judah, their generations, by their clans, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and upward, every man able to go to war: 27 those listed of the tribe of Judah were 74,600.  One, Two…skip a few…99,100. It’s the oldest and dirtiest trick in the book when playing Hide and…

13 For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh. In The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne, we witness the downfall of the Puritan minister, Arthur Dimmesdale. What makes this so satisfying to many readers is the minister’s affiliation with the moralist Christians….

See with what large letters I am writing to you with my own hand. There have been scholars that have asserted that we can have no idea what the original biblical writers wrote. They could not be more wrong. I am heartened by the fact that the original of Galatians most likely was still around when the earliest known copy…