The Bible is an unusual book. One can read a million volumes, but this is the only book that actually reads the person who peruses its pages. “For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart” (Hebrews 4:12). In …Read More
Does anybody really know what time it is?
In the late Sixties the rock group Chicago recorded a lovely jazz-swing hit. The song asks if people are truly aware of what is happening in the world around them: “As I was walking down the street one day, being pushed and shoved by people trying to beat the clock…People runnin’ everywhere, don’t know where to go, don’t know where I am, can’t see past the next step, don’t have …Read More
Bombing Auschwitz
World media is zooming in on the odds of an Israeli bombing attack on Iran’s nuclear weapons factories. Discussions range from electronic counter-measures to potential economic fallout on the world’s oil market. An Islamist bomb in the hands of a jihadi Shi’ite dictatorship is the talk of the town. But demonized leaders bent on destroying the Jewish people are not a new thing in Jewish history. George Santayana once said, …Read More
A Messianic perspective on Poland and the Jewish people
As world events vis-à-vis the Jewish people begin to look like flashbacks from Nazi Germany during the late 1930’s, it might be helpful to consider some prophetic lessons from history for our own day. Rachel and I recently traveled across Poland and dialogued with Polish believers (both Jewish and Gentile), searching for wisdom and insight about what happened during the era of World War Two. “Those who cannot remember the …Read More