Andrew Jackson was our nation’s seventh president, serving two full terms from 1829-1837. Jackson’s supporters founded the Democratic party. He was noted for his strong efforts to advance the rights of the common man and for fighting assiduously…
The last recorded words of the apostle Peter include this challenging exhortation (2Pet.3:18): Keep on growing in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory, both now and to the…
I am trying her to prevent anyone saying the really foolish things that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.” That…
My wife and I recently enjoyed a spring break trip to Virginia that included visiting a dozen or so Civil War battlefields and key sites. Among these (in the order in which we encountered them) were Antietam, Harpers…
Reading the story of Elijah’s repeated confrontations with the wicked duo, Ahab and Jezebel, causes one to wonder – – “What does it take to invite the wrath of God?” It seems to us that the all-knowing Jehovah…
Robert Lowry, affectionately known as the “Good Doctor”, was a man of great faith who preferred preaching rather than composing hymns. He had that rare ability to hold large audiences spellbound with his powerful (and seemingly magnetic) sermons.…
While the prophet Elijah felt all alone (1Kgs.18:22 & 19:10 & 14), he really wasn’t. God was with him and, although perhaps unknown to him, there were 7,000 among the Israelites who had not bowed their knees to…
We’ve all experienced occasional mood swings. Some can be severe – – like when the Tribe lost game seven of the 2016 World Series to the Cubbies. Who among us hasn’t felt that sudden descent from a “high”…
The fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt offering, the wood, the stones & the dust, and licked up the water in the trench (1Kgs.18:38). In the contest on Mount Carmel the fire of the Lord…
There are a dozen different Obadiahs mentioned in the Old Testament. Everything we know about the Obadiah who delivered Elijah’s meet-me-on-the-mountain message to King Ahab is found exclusively in 1Kgs.18:3-16. Those who plumb the depths of this chapter…