Bible studies, personal reflections, media reviews, and more: "How forcible are right words!" (Job 6:25a)
More films I’ve watched recently… Patton (1970). Classic war film performance by George C. Scott with able assistance from Karl Malden. Despite its PG rating, this film has a considerable…
In 2 Pt. 2:4 and Jude 6, we learn the immediate and ultimate fate of defecting angels from Gen. 6: they were cast down to hell after drowning in the…
I’m pleased to find good quotes everywhere. Quoting someone doesn’t mean you endorse them, just the veracity and/or significance of something they said. Have patience with everything unresolved in your…
Dearest AI, you can’t have my humanity! Below is an excerpt from “The Flyover,” a nonpartisan daily news letter that I subscribe too…and recommend. The excerpt was linked to Cosmopolitan…
Alcatraz: Believe It or Not by T.C. Bakker. YA-level book with much more detail than the What Is Alcatraz? title I read earlier. I recommend both, since the latter title…
Not the one to Egypt, which probably took just weeks (Gen. 37:28, 39:1; Deut. 1:1-2), but the one out of Egypt after his death. In. Gen. 50:24-26, Joseph makes the…
Noah’s flood, attested to by Christ on at least two occasions (Mt. 24:38-39; Luke 17:27), is by no means the only flood in scripture. To the contrary, there are at…
It seems like human nature to want to identify the “GOAT” (Greatest of All Time”) at something. But is it fair? I prefer to look at certain individuals, e.g., in…
Zulu (1964). Recounts the heroic stand of a small British contingent against a horde of Zulu warriors at Rorke’s Drift in 1879. This was Michael Cain’s first major role, I…
Col. 1:9-12; 4:12 It’s one thing to know the will of God, and Paul and Timothy (“we” of 1:9; cf. 1:1), were praying for the Colossian believers along these lines.…
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