Overcome The sun beat down on the Gaugamela plain, glinting off of helmets, spear tips and shields as dust and sand rose in great gusts, intermittently blocking the view of the enemy. The call from the officers rang out and the sandaled feet of the Macedonian phalanx advanced, not in a straight line, but at…
Be on the alert, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. 1 Corinthians 16:13 (NASB) Sometimes I read the news today (as with all of the recent racket about Bruce Jenner) and I feel like a Roman Soldier standing atop the beginnings of Hadrian’s Wall. Walking back and forth while on…
I’ve always only seen two things generally noted about Stephen’s stoning in Acts 7: that Stephen was the first Christian martyr (first in a long line which continues through today) and that those who stoned him laid their coats at the feet of a man named Saul (later Paul). These are definitely important takeaways.…
Here’s one thing which really bothers me: the abuse of history. It shows itself most often in two different ways, both of which are very disturbing. First, people tend to airbrush history in order to confirm their own biases. And second, people today tend to view previous generations as know-nothing imbeciles. Both of these end…
I had heard it many times before, but the first time the O Worship the King tune grabbed my attention was when I was only eight years old. I remember sitting in the small church building where we attended worship at the time and the song leader got up, announced the hymn number in his…
On 9 November 1989 – 25 years ago now – the Berlin Wall began coming down. It was only weeks later that my family and I (when I was only a young lad) went to East Germany and East Berlin. We crossed over from the West to the East through Checkpoint Charlie only a day…
A while back I wrote a post on the hymn Be Thou My Vision and I mentioned in it how the song had been popping up over and over again at (seemingly) random times recently. The difference between Be Thou My Vision and Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing is that the latter has been…
