The New Free Thinkers“Hear ye, Hear ye!” The words of the king’s decree filled Mordecai’s ears. The king’s servants were looking for suitable young young women to go into the king’s house. Instantly he thought of the fair cousin he had taken in as a daughter. Something was driving him to take a leap and offer her to [...]
It’s Monday morning. The alarm goes off, and you groan in disgust. You wonder why Mondays are always the hardest. After pushing the snooze button twelve times you throw yourself out of bed, already expecting the day to be slow and agonizing.
Sound familiar? What would happen if Monday mornings weren’t like that? What if we [...]
Rock
There are many references to God as a rock or stone in the Bible. We have already seen that one name for Jesus is the Chief Cornerstone. Psalm 118:22 calls Him “the stone which the builders rejected”. It is clear that Jesus Christ is intended to be our foundation (I Corinthians 3:11). Paul expounded on [...]
Everyone knows the story of Thomas, the disciple who refused to accept the story of Jesus’ resurrection until he had seen Christ with his eyes and touched the wounds with his hands. Even atheists and agnostics will call someone a “doubting Thomas.” We know from the book of Acts that Thomas eventually received the proofs [...]
Imagine yourself sitting down in a fancy restaurant. You look over the menu and a “chocolate fudge cake” catches your eye. You wait and wait, and the waitress finally walks over after her forty-five minute break from you. She acts as though no one has noticed her absence and calmly says “ok, what do you [...]
Picking the road to use for my commute is usually the first thing I think about after buckling the seat belt. There’s the straight road through a small but busy town, the winding back road that has almost no traffic, and a multitude of side roads to vary the routine. The catch is that I’ve [...]
“Prophets don’t end up in jail cells.”
The thought haunted him during the watchful nights and into the disruptive early morning barrages. His prophecies against the king and for the invading army had finally landed him in jail, and from all appearances he was going to stay there until the city was overtaken. This was not [...]
“And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, that I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, [...]