The Holocaust as Judgment (2 of 3)
Thursday, October 28th, 2010An overview of the covenant relationship that God entered into with Israel at Mt. Sinai. Art points out that the covenant obligations are still binding: obedience bringing blessing and life, and disobedience bringing curse and judgment.
The Holocaust as Judgment (1 of 3)
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010Art maintains that God reveals Himself in His judgments, and offers a suggestion for an interpretation of Jewish catastrophe as a witness to Jews prior to and including a final time of calamity destined for that people.
Sent from God – Isaiah’s call
Monday, March 8th, 2010“Who will go for us?” The word “who” haunts me; it suggests very few candidates. How often do you find a believer who has risen above the prevailing culture and the correctness of his doctrine, who really knows God as God, who sees God as terrifying, stupefying and vast? When was the last time you met someone who has seen God in His greatest act, namely, the revelation of the nature of God in His suffering and death, which has ever and always been His nature? The only thing that the cross did was reveal what God always was and is; He is a servant, a sent one Himself.
Is Death the End? – The Reality of Hell
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008The reality of Hell needs to be anguished over, and to be understood as a terrible and eternal calamity. Once your life ends, there is no turning back; there is no second chance; there is no way to make amends when you realize that what you have spurned all your living days in those who […]
Some Comments on the Tragedy of September 11, 2001
Saturday, April 19th, 2008The Shaking of All Things That Can Be Shaken There has been a great fall. More has come down than the great towers of the world’s financial center; it is the world itself that can never again be the same. What security, confidence or trust can mankind be assured when even its impenetrable symbol of […]
Israel and the Apocalypse: A Key of Interpretation
Tuesday, March 25th, 2008With the message of Israel, my inmost being is called into participation of a radical kind as it brings a corrective against soulish counterfeits and lesser alternatives in the earnestness of what is at stake.
The Anatomy of Sin (2 of 2)
Saturday, March 1st, 2008It is pointless to talk about the Last Days, prophecy, Israel, etc unless we have made peace in our hearts with the issues of sin and judgment.
The Anatomy of Sin (1 of 2)
Saturday, March 1st, 2008It is pointless to talk about the Last Days, prophecy, Israel, etc unless we have made peace in our hearts with the issues of sin and judgment.
Phinehas – Priest of Obedience
Saturday, March 1st, 2008The decline of obedience to the moral laws of God in society and in the church will ultimately bring upon themselves the redemptive judgments of God.
Judgment (2 of 2)
Saturday, March 1st, 2008At the heart of the knowledge of God is the knowledge of a God who judges.
Judgment (1 of 2)
Saturday, March 1st, 2008At the heart of the knowledge of God is the knowledge of a God who judges.
The Fire of God’s Judgment
Saturday, March 1st, 2008A powerful cry of God to sound the trumpet call of repentance in the light of His soon coming judgment with a fire that cannot be quenched.
The Chosen People: Chosen for What?
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008As Jews, one thing that makes us recoil is being called “chosen.” It is something like the involuntary shudder that comes with the screech of chalk on a blackboard. After all, what has being chosen ever meant to us but trouble?
Moses at the Burning Bush
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008This is more than just an episode out of the life of Moses. There is something here for our deepest consideration, and I hope it will be for some as much a confrontation as it was for Moses. We have as much a requirement to be met by the God of the burning bush and be sent by Him to deliver a people out of bondage.
A Message on Restoration and Return
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008(With quotations from Thomas M. Raitt’s A Theology of Exile, Fortress Press, 1977) The prophecies of Zephaniah, as is true with all the prophets of Israel, speak not only to the present condition and immediate future of the nation, but also its eschatological future and end. So one is warned of the Babylonian judgment then […]
Nightclub Disaster: A Parable of Hell
Thursday, February 7th, 2008In 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.
God Crucified
Thursday, February 7th, 2008We shall be the victims of such compromise as the intensity of the temptations increase enormously as we come deeper into the end of the age, and increasing to the degree to which we have not really appropriated the Cross of Jesus Christ!
Eye for an Eye, a Tooth for a Tooth:
Thursday, February 7th, 2008While it is true that Jesus enjoins us in the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:38) not to requite others who have requited us, and that while we must not require ‘retaliation,’ may God for the purposes of righteousness and cosmic justice not require it of Himself?
A Plea for the Serious Consideration of God
Monday, February 4th, 2008A message, especially but not exclusively, for our Jewish kinsmen as we approach the end of the millennium Be still and know that I am God…(Psalm 46:10) There is a connection between the strange providences of God and what we know of Him, and we have to learn to interpret the mysteries of life in […]
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