Shalom from Jerusalem! As we get ready for another day here (Israel is seven hours ahead of NJ), here are three summary snapshots from our long travel day yesterday. A Good Flight Our flight was scheduled to take off from Newark at 4:30pm, but a mechanical problem (dented cargo door) delayed the flight by about…
As some of you know, I will be going on a trip next week. Before I graduated from The Master’s Seminary, I had signed up to go on the school’s annual study trip to Israel, but the onset of Covid and travel restrictions meant that the trip had to be postponed. However, because the Covid…
As we come to the end of our month of Easter celebration, I find myself thinking about the last stanza of Keith Getty’s and Stuart Townsend’s modern hymn, See What a Morning. The last stanza reads: And we are raised with Him Death is dead, love has won, Christ has conquered And we shall reign…
Rather than wait till Wednesday to publish a meditation for this Holy Week/Passion Week, I thought that we might benefit from a series of meditations to use throughout the week. Below is a harmony of the Gospels for Jesus’ final week in Jerusalem (taken from A Harmony of the Gospels by Robert L. Thomas and…
One application Pastor Babij gave in his recent sermon on Jude 17-19 is that, in light of the danger of false teaching, we Christians need to grow in our knowledge of the Bible. Pastor Babij has actually been giving this exhortation throughout his series on Jude, and such counsel is to be taken seriously. After…
In my recent sermon on the spiritual discipline of the Bible, I mentioned that our approach to the Bible ought to be multi-faceted: not just reading the Bible but memorizing the Bible, talking about the Bible, hearing the Bible preached, and more. Yet we must never neglect fundamental study of the Bible with our own…
Well, it might not be long after you start getting serious about the discipline of the Bible and exhorting others to the same discipline that you receive the accusation of “bibliolatry.” There is no standard definition of the pejorative term, but “bibliolatry” is usually used to refer to excessive devotion to the Bible or even…
Growing up, I liked to watch cartoons, and one of the frequently featured techniques of a cartoon villain is brainwashing. Using either diabolical technology or nefarious magic, the villain could force whole masses of people to believe something that wasn’t true or to act in ways that they would never normally choose to act. This…
I will never forget a certain question someone asked me during a session of biblical counseling. I was trying to help a young man grow in his spiritual walk with Christ, and he asked me one time, “How many hours of Bible reading do I need a day to overcome this sin?” He was asking…
(Today’s article is a guest post from our brother, Mark Twombly. Mark originally published this article on his blog in April 2020; he has graciously allowed me to repost it with some slight edits. I’m sure you’ll find its content still just as relevant today.) Make me know Your ways, O LORD; Teach me Your…