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The Lord’s Return From Mad Max to the animated Disney film WALL-E, popular books and movies reveal society’s persistent obsession with the apocalypse. Typically, a few brave survivors navigate a blasted landscape trying to restore human society or at least keep it intact. Ironically, the biblical idea of apocalypse focuses on something else.

We Are Holy to the Lord The nature versus nurture debate in psychology questions whether our behavior is inherited or learned. Do we behave the way we do because we have been wired to think and act a certain way from birth? Or is our behavior a result of a combination of learning and environment. Many feel both play a role. Holiness is another...

Fishers of Men In the opening chapter of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, we can read a memorable exchange between the novel’s hero Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf the wizard. Gandalf imposes an adventure upon Bilbo, the unsuspecting hobbit. Bilbo says, “I beg your pardon, I haven’t asked for anything!” Gandalf’s reply is direct and challenging, “Yes...

Family Disciples Society has little place for those deemed to be insane. The history of America’s mental institutions—“insane asylums,” as they used to be called— gives a small glimpse into the handling of those who have lost their abilities to reason soundly. John Hinkley Jr. was sentenced to an asylum for his attempt to assassinate President...

Rough Terrain On March 20, 2019, Turkish Airlines Flight 1 hit severe air turbulence while about 40 minutes away from landing in New York City. The airlines said the flight “encountered an unusual turbulence” and some 30 people were severely injured after being lifted out of their seats and hitting the ceiling. For the passengers, everything...

Recognizing Jesus The Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary and Thesaurus defines “get ahead of yourself” as “to do something too early, or before you are ready or prepared.” One often hears a public speaker make a remark about getting ahead of himself when he detours from the main subject at hand and goes off track to another item. While...

Front Row Seats The average Super Bowl ticket costs between $2,500 and $3,000. However, one sports fan paid $65,000 to get a seat on the 40-yard line, just six rows from the field, for Super Bowl LII! Front row seat—or even those close to the front row—are coveted in any sports or entertainment venue. The closer the seat to the front, the...

Rejecting Jesus A cornerstone, also called a foundation stone, is important because it is the very first stone laid in a building. Structurally it is the stone on which the rest of the building is constructed. Jesus is described as the Chief Cornerstone of the church (Eph. 2:20). The tenants in Jesus’ parable had stewardship of the landowner’s...

Greatness God’s Way When the Loyola University men’s basketball team reached the Final Four in 2018, many thought their Cinderella season would end with a NCAA championship. Entering the tournament as a No. 11 seed, they defeated opponent after opponent to secure their spot in the Final Four. Taking a first-half lead against the Michigan...

Preparing for the End Herod’s Temple was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD with an incredible amount of violent bloodshed. In The Jewish War, historian Flavius Josephus describes the destruction with horrific and vivid words: “Crowded together around the entrances many were trampled by their friends, many fell among the still hot and smoking...