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The global panic surrounding the coronavirus outbreak is breathtaking in its overreaction. Two nations quarantined. Major events cancelled in areas where there is no coronavirus! Airlines going bankrupt. Hotels vacated. Borders locked down. Stock markets plummeting. (Warren Buffett says it’s time to invest!) One would think it is the bubonic plague, but it isn’t. COVID-19, the virus […]

Luke 19:4 “And he ran before, and climbed up into a sycomore tree to see him: for he was to pass  that way.” I grew up in a house surrounded by a sycamore wood. Perhaps 50 percent of the trees were sycamores. I loved these fascinating trees. I was taught that Zacchaeus (who was a very

Recently I received the following question: “I’ve always wondered about this question, can a child repent? I asked Jesus to come into my heart when I was seven. I can’t recall repentance. I recall saying that I knew I was a sinner, but I don’t recall any turning back. So am I not saved? There

Job 40:15 “Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.” In Job 40, there is an account of a large animal called a behemoth. The word behemoth is a transliteration of the Hebrew word, which is a plural of the word behemah. Whereas behemah appears a lot in the Old Testament,

“Last month, Charlie McDonnell was upfront with his fans. He was the first UK YouTuber to reach a million subscribers, and he has been uploading videos to the site since 2007. Then in March, he told his followers on Twitter: ‘I have, essentially, quit the YouTube thing.’ Part of his rationale was that it ‘Turns

Genesis 9:2 “And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.” One well known children’s TV show in

“President Donald Trump has put Richard Grenell, a gay man with a same-sex partner, in the position of acting Director of National Intelligence, the cabinet-level official who oversees the U.S. intelligence community. After naming Grenell acting DNI on Feb. 19, Trump announced on Feb. 28 that he was nominating Rep. John Ratcliffe (R.-Texas) to take

Genesis 1:25 “And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.” Seeing a woolly mammoth must have been an awe-inspiring sight. As big as Asian elephants, these hairy animals occur

“As health care experts and world leaders struggle with the spread of the new corona virus (COVID-19) — an infectious respiratory illness like influenza (flu) but caused by a different virus–it merits noting how widespread influenza is in the United States and globally, and how many people die from the flu each year. According to

Genesis 1:25 “And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.” If I have occasion to visit a zoo, one enclosure that I really can’t miss is that of the

“In an article published last fall in the online Canadian magazine Quillette, historian Christopher Dummitt discusses how he went from denying that sex is a biological reality to admitting that he was wrong. Dummitt describes how in the 1990s as a graduate student he promoted the idea that sex is wholly a social construct—‘that there was

Genesis 1:11 “And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so.”  I like trees. I like walking through woods. But I guess if we want to talk about fossils, then