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Naïveté: The Tragic Beheading of Nicholas Berg
There is something especially sad in this latest of melancholy episodes coming out of the war in Iraq in a self-appointed man, “traveling alone, without a translator or a bodyguard, in a lawless land whose language he barely understood.” [This and all quotes are from the N.Y. Times article, May 26, 2004].
The American authorities that […]
Nathaniel - A Key to Breaking the Power of our Predictable Christianity
In the gospel of John, there is a strange statement that Jesus makes to a man by the name of Nathaniel. I sense that Nathaniel is typical of a disillusioned man both then and now. Perhaps he could be likened to someone who desires something beyond an inadequate, conventional Judaism or conventional Christianity, with things […]
The Nations in Relation to God
We are all familiar with the Scripture, “The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof, and the nations and those that dwell therein.” We have quoted this Scripture many times, but we have not really believed it, and have therefore allowed the nations to indulge themselves in their independence as if they have no […]
The Necessary Death and Resurrection of Israel
A Prophetic Scenario for the Last days?
Ezekiel Chapter 37
As with the prophetic ’son of man’ of this dread and glorious chapter, so also are we, the prophetic people of God, required to be set down […]
The New Anti-Semitism
We all know that anti-Semitism is increasing in remarkable leaps and bounds. The Jews call it the new anti-Semitism. What makes it new, ironically, is that there is a reviving of the allusions to Jews requiring Gentile children’s blood in order to mix in with their matzo and other ceremonial things. This is an unbelievable, […]
Nightclub Disasters: A Parable of Hell
A Tract for the Dubious and Unbelieving
In a moment, suddenly, the very plastic and synthetic trappings that encouraged a false gaiety, a pseudo excitement, are turned by a pyrotechnic spark into an inferno of relentless and devastating flames. In that instant, the happy crowd of bonhomie, whose density added to the pleasure of shared anticipation, […]