Books of the Bible

A construction company in Belize recently destroyed one of the nation’s largest Mayan pyramids while excavating for a new road. The loss is incalculable, and authorities blame it on laziness. Builders were too slothful to figure a way around the treasure, so they took the easy way out, bulldozing through it without thinking. We do a […]

If you read the last words of dying people, you’ll find sayings both preposterous and profound. Playwright Oscar  Wilde, for example, said as he died in a drab hotel: “Either the wallpaper goes, or I do.” Well, there was no drivel from Paul’s pen as he recorded his last words in 2 Timothy. Confined to

Most everything we buy comes with an owner’s manual, but if you’re like me, looking at those instructions is the last resort. We put it off as long as possible. Well, the book of 1 Timothy is an instruction manual for the local church. We should read it often and heed it diligently. It’s the

Those who travel for a living know the burden of long-distance parenting. Thanks to modern technology, we can still read to our kids or talk to them at bedtime. But it’s hard to be away from our children when they need us. That’s how Paul felt about the church of the Thessalonians. In Acts 17,

What if no one had a copy of a New Testament in your congregation nor had even heard of one? That was a problem in the early Church. When Paul evangelized the Macedonian city of Thessalonica, for example, few if any New Testament writings were available. When we face questions or problems today, we open