Matthew 13:31-33, "He put another parable before them, saying, "The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field. It is the smallest of all seeds, but when it has grown it is larger than all the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches." He told them another parable. "The ...

Romans 5:17, "For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ." Someone called the 5th chapter of the book of Romans, "The Chapter of the Five Kings". In it we see King Sin, for Sin reigned. There is King Death, for "Death reigned." There is King Gr...

Gabriel Heatter(September 17, 1890 - March 30, 1972),the son of Jewish immigrants from Austria, was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. He went to work forWOR, radio station as a reporter and commentator. His audience expanded when in 1934, WOR became the flagship station of the newest network,Mutual Broadcasting. Heatter gained a reputation for trying to find upliftin...

Revelation 5:5, "And one of the elders said to me, "Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals." The Lord Jesus Christ is called the Lion of the tribe of Judah, according to his human nature. This is a reference to Jacob's prophecy in Genesis 49:10. As to His divine nature, Jes...

Which Mindset Typifies the Church? Upon its release in the summer of 2017, Christopher Nolan's epic movie "Dunkirk", chronicling the rescue of the British army from the beaches of northeastern France in May 1940, became a worldwide box office success. The movie was based on the historical events of May 1940 where Germany had advanced into France, trapping Allied troops o...

Since the end of the 7th century, there have been over 450 versions of the Bible translated into English! In spite of the many versions of the Bible available today, there is one that is not on the market, but is used by multitudes of believers and unbelievers. I call it the "Not-For-Today Version." Many moderns use this version as they rant about how the Bible is just n...

In his excellent book Death by Suburb, David Goetz tells about the theory of a biologist who majors on the study of deer and elk that created a lot of debate among other biologists by setting forth the theory of the "shirker bull." Among elk and deer there's a fall ritual called the "rut" in which the bulls square off against each other, butting heads and seeking dominanc...

There is an old debater's tactic that says if the points of your argument are weak, shout and pound the podium to distract attention from it. Since history has demonstrated that all of the socialists, big-government, liberal leftists arguments are baseless, bankrupt and untenable, they have discovered that pounding the streets and shouting and screaming accusatory epithet...

Today's most common and powerful tactic of the leftist liberals is to cry, "Stop trying to force your puritanical, dark age morality on me." And then by lobbying, legislating, and loud protesting, they attempt to force their immorality on those of us who believe that there are absolute standards of morality. The unending litany of indignant protests from the "immorality-f...

2 Kings 6:15-20 The servant of Elisha the Prophet awakens one morning and goes outside only to see several thousand well-armed enemy troops surrounding their little town. Overwhelmed with fear, he cries out to the prophet, "Alas, what shall we do?" A vast number of American Christians are beginning to feel the same way, especially as they look about at the rising tide of...