Volume 16, No.3, Aug. 2005
The Miracle at Shiloh
CASTING LOTS AT SHILOH "And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance. And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, 'How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the Lord God of your fathers hath given you?' And Joshua said, 'Give out from among you three men for each tribe, and [...]
The Law and the Gospel
But what does it mean when Christ says: "The poor have good tidings preached to them?" Is it not preached also to the rich and to the whole world? Again, why is the Gospel so great a thing, so great a blessing as Christ teaches, seeing that so many people despise and oppose it? Here we must know what Gospel really is, otherwise we [...]
The Samaritan Woman
The account of Jesus and the woman of Samaria who came to draw water, and was offered a taste of the "living waters," is recorded inJohn4:l-29. Samaria was the name of a stretch of country located between Judea and Galilee, and while the Jews dealt with the Samaritans on a commercial basis, they had no intercourse with them socially or religiously but, rather, treated [...]
Rejoice Evermore
In his retirement, President John Adams (second president of the United States) turned his attention back to Biblical studies and in 1805 challenged the idea of the "perfect ability of man" as expounded by the eighteenth-century philosophers. "I consider the perfectability of man as used by modern philosophers to be mere words without meaning, that is mere nonsense," he wrote. Then he added, "[but] [...]