2025 – Volume 36
Sing to Him a New Song
“Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy” (Psalms 33:3). I have been a singer all my life. My dad was a middle school music teacher and Methodist choir director. I sang in choirs at church and high school, and I sang harmony with a friend at different venues. How grateful I am that the Lord stopped that vain [...]
Good King Manasseh?
“Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign ... he reigned five and fifty years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hephzibah. And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah” (2 Kings 21:1‑2). The account of King Manasseh in Judah given to us in 2 Kings 21 paints a picture of a very bad King who, ironically, [...]
Science Supports the Bible
The Earth‑Moon System and the Breaking‑Forth Seas of Job. “Who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?” (Job 38:8). The Bible is the book of God’s revealed word. God’s creative work is written in the book of the stones of nature. Reflection on the record of these two very different books should [...]