I was entering the seventh grade, a new kid in a new town at a new school, sitting in the junior high auditorium, enduring an orientation class, not knowing a soul. The only friends I had made that summer were sixth graders, and back in those dark ages, when I was a...

If you were a looking for Biblical proof that civil government enjoys the sanction of divine authority, Romans 13: 1-7 provides such an endorsement.  Paul urges everyone to be subject to the governing authorities, calls everyone to live in obedience to the rulers of...

Goliath stood nine and a half feet tall.  We’re talking a surefire NBA lottery pick.  He was covered head to toe in polished bronze and carried a spear the size of a pole-vault pole and a shield that looked like a piece of aluminum siding.   And he walked before the...

All of you know who Adonijah is without my saying a word, so I won’t bother refreshing your memories – at least not just yet.  But know this about Adonijah – he was abused as a child.  No, he was not abused in the way you might be thinking, which is to say that he was...

When we say the phrase, “the wrath of God,” it is easy to conjure up the image of some bearded Greco-Roman deity sitting on a throne hurling down thunderbolts from heaven upon those who have irritated him.  Those of you who know early American preacher Jonathan...