2 Peter 1:16-21 Postmodern sages would have us believe that certainty is only an illusion in the minds of fanatics and fools. Despite such aspersions, the human mind continues to seek after certainty because the human heart craves security. Certainty begets...

Micah 6:1-8 Nobody wants to receive a summons to court, especially family court. Every family has its fair share of dirty laundry. Who doesn't cringe at the thought of having it aired in public?...

Matthew 4:12-17; Isaiah 9:1-4 It was a typical news night: stories of national political corruption; wars abroad; local murders, rapes, and thefts. Four hundred years, same old news, when suddenly a prophet appeared with a late breaking report: "The kingdom of Heaven is...

John 1:29-42 John the Baptist understood the Passover ritual as a picture of the sacrifice of Christ. Seeing Jesus coming toward him John said, "Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!" (vs. 29). John repeated his prophetic proclamation the next...

Acts 10:34-43 Like most people who grew up in northwest Louisiana in the mid twentieth century, I absorbed a lot of racial prejudice from my culture. I didn't realize it at the time, of course, for prejudice of all kinds is usually unconscious and unintended. In time God let me see...