Gifted by God

Gifted by God

When I was in college I took a course on Interpersonal Communications. Not because I wanted to, but because I had to. I majored in communications because that way you could get free studio time for your rock band. I was in a rock band. So in exchange for free studio...
Bearing Fruit

Bearing Fruit

Instant gratification is a very common human desire. It can be defined as “the temptation, and resulting tendency, to forego a future benefit in order to obtain a less rewarding but more immediate benefit.” And this temptation abounds! The modern world doesn’t just...
A Cosmic Empire

A Cosmic Empire

Sir John Glubb was a British soldier, scholar and author. He was born in 1897, and served in France in the First World War from 1915 to 1918. In 1926 he left the army to serve the Iraq Government. From 1939 to 1956, he commanded the Jordan Arab Legion. In his...
Nutty Prophets & True Hope

Nutty Prophets & True Hope

In the 1970s, a man named Hal Lindsey wrote several books proclaiming that an event called “The Rapture” was going to occur in the 1980s. In more recent years, this “Rapture” was depicted in the books and movies of the Left Behind series. I read one of Lindsay’s...