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No one, and especially God has ever seriously contended that life is easy. Life's paths are strewn with obstacles, boulders, pitfalls and even mountains that challenge the ability to survive, much less overcome and prevail. No person has ever escaped walking through a dense, at times overwhelming landscape of obstacles. Fortunately, though, the truths of the Scriptures reflect that most of our obstacles may be overcome, or at least their effec...

A fully united kingdom of ancient Israel was a short lived entity that had only three reigning monarchs. The lives and reigns of these three men, Saul, David and Solomon, provide a fascinating structure to a major portion of the Old Testament. Further, they are an ever relevant primer on how the misuse of power can devastate a nation and poison the soul of its wielder. Their lives are three millenia past, but they lessons they teach about powe...

When the prophet Malachi finished his book circa 400 B.C. the Old Testament revelation of God was complete. He apparently spoke to mankind not at all for some four centuries thereafter. In these 400 years Western Civilization grew from infancy through the glory of Greece to the grandeur of Rome. Colossal figures such as Alexander the Great, Hannibal, Julius Caesar and Augustus Caesar bestrode the world stage. Civilization had spread, but so ha...

The Church which Christ Himself founded began in Jerusalem on the Day of Pentecost circa 30 A.D. It was born into a world where power was wielded by a political enormity never before seen by the world, the Roman Empire. Another power, a religious one centered in Jerusalem, the Jewish religious establishment, held an implacable hatred for Christianity and its Founder. In such hostile environs what chance had the infant Church?

As the world's population escalates the age-old problem of loneliness seems not to lessen, but rather to intensify. Especially now when a viral pandemic has battered the entire world, and populations have been locked down, effectively exiled and with a certain brutality even forced to be isolated, loneliness and its woes afflict massive numbers. It did not begin recently, though, and the Bible has as one of its continuing themes mankind's mank...

To many God is a fierce, wrathful, Divine monarch whose impatience with humanity has long been demon-strated, , nowhere more pointedly than in the Old Testament where He destroyed people and nations with an almost gleeful abandon. According to this version of the Almighty, His character was tempered somewhat by the coming of His Son, and He became the God of the New Testament. Such a view is a travesty, and this work shows the God of Creation,...

An old adage tells us that truth is stranger than fiction. It is also more compelling and in the case of this, the old, old story of the fulfillment of God's redemptive plan it is far more shocking and gruesome. An unforgettable cast ranges from Caiaphas, Pilate, Herod and Judas Iscariot to Mary, Peter, John and Mary Magdalene. Yet all remain in death's shadow until the principal player, Jesus Christ, the Master, teaches humanity its purest le...

This is the old, old story of a life and death unlike any other. Based upon a synopsis of the gospel records this is an account of the final fifty days of Jesus Christ on earth, from his first determined steps to Jerusalem to His ascension. Neither the shadows nor degradation and death itself eradicate the true Light of the world. His death proved that darkness was blacker than we can imagine, but that the light of His resurrection and ascensi...

Excepting only the husband/wife foundation the basic building block of the family structure has always been the parent/child relationship. Loving, problematical, warm, volatile, and inspirational it remains a universal human experience. Do the ancient, at times almost forgotten, stories of the Bible afford any guidance today?

Is the animal kingdom, the foxes, fowls and others to which Jesus constantly referred a momentary vapor that briefly appears before vanishing at death? By examining Bible narratives this book attempts to provide scriptural answers to this question. Simply stated, does this element of God's Creation live in heaven?