There was a very popular song some years ago entitled “From a Distance.”[1] The song detailed what the world looked like from a distance—everyone living in harmony, no one in…
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14:6) There are several important truths in this very familiar…
In John 11:25 Jesus makes the statement “I am the resurrection and the life.” Now, I don’t know about you, but there’s something about this statement that has never really…
The front door of the house where I lived until I was about 10 or 11 was a fairly rustic barn door. Right down at the bottom between two of…
If you spend much time in the Old Testament, you will soon come to realize the important role sheep played in the sacrificial system. Daily, weekly, monthly, yearly the Israelites…
We’ve all had that experience. We sit in the growing darkness of evening as we are busy reading, watching television, chatting with friends. Then, unexpectedly, someone comes into the room…
In his delightful book The Ultimate Guide to the Names of God, Elmer Towns explains that “as each name of God is unfolded, a new source of strength is revealed…
One of the hardest things for many people to accept is that Jesus actually rose from the dead, and that hundreds of people claim they saw Him afterward. While some…
On Easter Sunday night, a 145 mile per hour tornado ripped through my neighborhood in Chattanooga, Tennessee. As I sat in our inner room with my two daughters (my son…
In our current series with Dr. Gary Habermas, he lists 12 facts about Jesus that are accepted by more than 90 percent of even skeptical scholars. One fact that is…
