If you were dying but had the opportunity of writing a final letter to friends, what would you say? That’s a heavy question, but it helps us understand 2 Peter. Knowing his remaining time was short, Peter wrote this letter, probably from Rome, as he neared the time of his martyrdom. Had you been Peter, […]
If someone had the capacity to retain everything he read, of remembering every fact and date, of summoning to mind every particle of learning; if he could tell you the answer to every question on every exam and provide every statistic known to man, he still would have nothing valuable to say without one other
Most of us know the value of a wise pastor to whom we can go for advice and counsel, someone whose biblical messages give us daily nourishment and practical guidance, who cares for us and speaks wisdom to our circumstances. Capernaum was a fishing village where Jesus lived as an adult. It was established during
The president of a Christian university was famous for telling discouraged students: “It’s always too soon to quit.” Those words ring true for all of us, because life is difficult and we sometimes want to give up. Hebrews was written to tell us to persevere, to keep going, to focus on our great high priest,
There are two things we seldom see nowadays, a personal handwritten note; and someone who says to us, “Put that on my bill.” In this little letter, a man named Philemon received both. This is one of the most personal stories in the Bible and it provides us with Paul’s only piece of truly private