When Paul arrived in Thessalonica, his body showed the shameful treatment he had received at Philippi. He and Silas had just been dragged into the marketplace, brought before the magistrates who ripped their garments off of them and publicly beaten them with rods, and they received many stripes. They were thrown into jail where they could hardly move because their feet were…
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Let's Go Back to the Bible
Posts by Dan Jenkins
The closing words of the book of Ecclesiastes should be remembered by every person on this earth. The wisest man of the Old Testament, Solomon, said, “For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil” (12:14). That phrase, “every secret thing,” when fully understood, will change your life. It will…
Over the years, I have been part of conversations where people talked about just how good their mother/grandmother cooked a particular part of a meal. Or it may have been a friend who gave them a recipe of her specialty, but part of the conversation said something like, “I have tried and tried to prepare it like she did, but there must…
The world has changed so drastically from what it was just a short time ago. Morality has been redefined. Marriage has been redefined. Righteousness has been redefined. Realistically, we are not as concerned about godliness as we once were. We have become a society characterized by being a “non-judgmental” pluralistic one, where each person uses his own judgment and his own…
With the coming of a new year, my mind is taken back to a poem I memorized when I was twelve years old. I have searched and cannot find who wrote it in one of its several versions, but it is one which has had a profound impact on my life. I hope it will have the same impact on yours! There…
It was Jesus who described the final judgment and discussed the right hand and left hand of the Judge of all mankind. It is truly the most sobering thought that you and I will be there and hear the judgment given as to where we shall be forever and ever. Every person who has ever lived will be there, for the graves…
Perhaps it is because I am getting older, but it is hard to believe that another year is about to come to an end. To a four year old child, it takes “forever” for him or her to turn five. If you are 54, that time to 55 seems like a few months. If you are 74, it seems more like a…
It is hard for those of us who see to imagine how different our world is to those who are blind. I remember talking to Darrell Young, a young blind man who was a member at Palm Beach Lakes many years ago. I vividly remember the day we talked about colors. He knew the names of colors, but I could not imagine…