We just finished the Thanksgiving weekend. It was a time when most of us spent time with family and had a ton of food at our fingertips. It is appropriate that we call the holiday “Thanksgiving.” We have a great deal for which we should be thankful.  Usually at Thanksgiving, we focus on certain things

Recently I was reading the OT Book of Amos. I ran across an interesting verse. The prophet says, “Therefore the prudent keep silent at that time, For it is an evil time” (Amos 5:13). Amos is saying that there are times when those who are wise do not speak. This occurs when it is “an evil time.”  Amos was a prophet

I have a confession to make. Bartimaeus is one of my heroes. I don’t think he gets the credit he deserves. I have written about him in the GES journal. See here. One of the things I point out in that article is that Bartimaeus is used by Mark to give a believer in Jesus

Anybody who grew up in any kind of church setting has probably heard hundreds of testimonies. A testimony is the account a person relates of how he or she became a believer. Recently, I was with a group of missionaries, and we were all asked to give our own personal testimony.  If you are like me, you have experienced that these times of sharing follow a

I have a confession to make. Sometimes it is difficult for me to determine how to apply a passage in the OT to my life. I know that all Scriptures are profitable (2 Tim 3:16), but when I try to ask what certain passages addressed to the nation of Israel have to do with the

We are all familiar with Paul’s warning to Timothy that the time would come when the believers Timothy is serving will want their ears tickled (2 Tim 4:3). In other words, they will want to be told what they want to hear. We are all prone to that problem. We don’t like it when the Word of God