“THE PRINT OF THE NAILS” —John 20.27 [Preached seventeen times from 4/2/72 at Langley Park to Remoder in 1994] The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the most vital of all truths. Without it, there would be no Christianity at all. But like all great Christian truths, it is a very dangerous one. As soon as you speak of justification by faith alone, someone will begin to say: “Then it doesn’t matter how I live.” And as soon as you say,... Read more
AKEDAH Did he ponder Isaac Whilst hanging on the cross A last second substitution Just before all was lost? Is this why he cried out ‘My God, My God’ so loud Showing disappointment Before a hostile crowd? Where’s God’s intervention, Offering another lamb Or would He be passed over A dangling great I AM? Abandoned but begotten Left to face his fate? Would help arrive in ‘nick of time’ Or would it come too late? Where’s the lamb, asked Isaac... Read more
SHADE TREE A tree always a tree, That shadows forth his shade to me. The tree of Eden long before Tempting those who longed for more Knowledge, power, experience, But lacking trust, lacking sense. A tree, always a tree That shadows forth his shade to me. The burning bush Could Moses see More than curiosity Ablaze with all infinity. A tree always a tree That shadows forth his shade to me. That terrible Terebinth Oh Absalom, a tithing tenth Ensnared... Read more
Jewish graveyards with headstones turned over. Jewish Community Centers with bomb threats throughout the land. Poland in 1939? No, America in 2017. The more things change, the more they stay the same, and the perfect movie to comment on the hideous sin that is anti-Semitism is the Zookeeper’s Wife, a true story about the hiding of Jews underneath the Warsaw Zoo during WWII by the zookeeper, and his wife Antonia. Some have compared this movie to Schindler’s List, but the... Read more
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