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Articles by Art Katz available online and in PDF download format.
The Garden of Eden: The Corollary Between Israel and Adam and Eve
A Meditation based on the devotional reading of 11/2/03, from “Every Day With Jesus”
Archeologists as well as many Bible commentators suggest that present Israel might well encompass the original Garden of Eden. Whether or not this is so, there are certain factors that suggest a remarkable corollary between the expulsion from the Garden and the […]
Gleanings from Psalms 18 in the Light of Current Revival Phenomena
I am going to take look at portions of Psalms 18 because this psalm evokes a sense of God that I think we desperately need. The sense of God is the only all-important reality. And what is the church without a sense of God or the holiness of God? And if we lose that, what do […]
God: The Forgotten Father and Author of His Son’s Passion
In all of the present and increasing controversy over Mel Gibson’s film, The Passion, little or nothing is said about the role of God the Father, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Israel’s God, in the suffering and Crucifixion of Jesus. It is as if Jesus is some novel and autonomous figure doing his […]
God as a Factor in the Secular Affairs of Men?
I don’t know if anyone has noticed lately, but God, so long restricted to mere Friday through Sunday religious acknowledgment, is threatening to become a factor in the more serious affairs of men […]
God Crucified
Transcribed by Meri Burlingame in July 1997 from a tape of the same name of a message given by Art in Holland in the 1970’s. It has been edited in cooperation with Art […]
Godly Critiquing of our Church Life
The scriptures encourage us to “examine ourselves.” Critiquing would be a synonym for examining. We need to examine our lives, and events in our lives, in order to get their fullest meaning. If our lives were examined in the biblical sense, we would end up with fewer divorces, more sustained marriages, a richer quality of fellowship, and more […]
The Gospel in its Cosmic Setting
When you hear the word gospel, you need to think in terms of a cosmic overview of God’s supreme wisdom of a redemptive kind for the whole of mankind. The gospel is more than a little truncated formula. Paul speaks of “my Gospel.” There is a sense of affectionate, personal devotion to the great message […]