Category Archives: July 2024

It would be impossible for anyone to realistically imagine what it must have been like to have been the son of Solomon, King of Israel. Solomon’s wealth was beyond the ability to compute; his wisdom excelled the wisdom of anyone living before or after him; his dominion was world-wide and his influence incalculable. So, toContinue reading “Rehoboam, Son of Solomon (2nd in a series on Kings and Priests, Then and Now)”

Summarizing one of the most theologically profound books in the New Testament, the writer simply says in Hebrews 13:1: “Let brotherly love continue.” He is writing primarily to Hebrew believers, some no doubt having been saved from the earliest days of the church, on Pentecost. These saints had been scattered abroad because of persecution. ManyContinue reading “Let Brotherly Love Continue”

Revelation 5:10 reads: “And hath made us unto our God kings and priests: and we shall reign on the earth.” That was a revelatory peek into heaven recorded by the apostle John as he saw and heard a great throng of redeemed of every kindred, tongue, people, and nation singing a new song of victory,Continue reading “Kings and Priests, Then and Now (1st in a series)”

My sister and I had been staying with our grandmother in a small town in southeastern Iowa for a couple of days, having been left there by our parents, who assured us they would be back to pick us up on a certain day. That day had come, and our eyes were glued on theContinue reading ““I Will Come Again””

In a recent post, I spoke to the Biblical admonition found in Psalms 9:17: “The wicked shall be turned into Hell, and all the nations that forget God.” America has forgotten God. It didn’t happen overnight. Our 16th President faithfully raised the warning when he said that a nation (1) Cannot bring about prosperity by discouragingContinue reading “Ancient Wisdom For Today’s Nations”

One excuse, it has been said, is as good as another. The Duke of Wellington is credited with saying that “a person good at making excuses is seldom good at anything else.” And George Washington Carver said, “99% of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.” An inmate at the ButteContinue reading “One is as Good as Another”

Maybe you remember the fairy tale by Danish Author Hans Christian Andersen, published in 1837, about a vain emperor who lived only for wearing new clothes, spending every moment and much of his kingdom’s capital on a new suit of clothes for every occasion, every day. His pride and obsession were to the detriment ofContinue reading “Undressed and Unaware”

“I am a nation of unparalleled prestige and prosperity. A vast network of highways tie together every major city that is stretched under my flag. Magnificent public buildings and edifices stand as monuments to my greatness. The citizens of my domain are much like the citizens of every country. Humanism has influenced society in everyContinue reading “All The Nations That Forget God”

She was born well before the turn of the 20th century, lived through the terrible Great Depression, rearing four children without her husband who died in 1922, and witnessed two World Wars, and the Vietnam war. She was a grandmother that, due to unavoidable circumstances on her part, I knew mostly from a distance. ButContinue reading “Grandma Moore”