I took a lot of piano lessons when I was young, so I should be a better musician than I am today. In my teen years, though, my interests focused on girls and basketball, and my parents decided they didn’t want to pay for piano lessons if the lessons were the only time I actually […]
The movie Chariots of Fire tells the story of Eric Liddel who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Olympics. Liddel loved to run. He said he ran because “God made me fast and when I run fast I feel his pleasure.” But Liddel chose not to run when he discovered the qualifying rounds for […]
Much of my adult life has been spent employed in some form of Christian ministry: preaching, editing adult Sunday school material, and teaching in a Christian university. Over those years I’ve received a steady stream of information about the numerous resources that exist to assist a follower of Jesus in attaining spiritual maturity. There are […]
Reading Daniel 7-12 is somewhat like reading Jonah 3, 4. We rarely do it. These are often neglected chapters because they are difficult chapters. But they contain important content for both comings of Christ. Daniel would need a strong faith to receive these teachings. This text might be appreciated more thematically if we move backwards […]
In chapter six of his book Daniel looks like a hero. Do you think he looks like a hero in chapter 10? The lion’s den was now a distant memory. After serving for decades in the administrations of foreign kings, Daniel the Jewish statesman was now an old man (probably in his eighties or nineties), […]
