This question may sound like the setup to a joke, but it isn’t: Who was the first Jewish lawyer? Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz answers the question in the title of one of his books: Abraham: The World’s First (But Certainly Not Last) Jewish Lawyer. Dennis...
It is quite possibly the most reassuring moment in the entire Bible. Jesus hangs on the cross, about to die for your sins and mine. To either side of Him hang two criminals. Mark and Matthew report that the thieves mock, insult, and ridicule Him...
It’s one of the verses unbelievers use as a “gotcha” verse to challenge believers. It comes very early in the Bible: Then God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done....
This past week saw the 80th anniversary of “D-Day.” On June 6, 1944, Allied troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Australia and Canada landed on five stretches of the German-occupied French coastline. CNN noted that this may be the last milestone anniversary...
If you’re not a baseball fan, you may have missed what I consider to be some very important news this week. Major League Baseball has begun the process of integrating the accomplishments of Negro League's players into the MLB record book. MLB first announced the...
I don’t pay attention to pro football anymore (That’s a topic for another post.), but I couldn’t help clicking on a story the other day about the Green Bay Packers. A sportswriter was predicting the Packers’ win-loss record for 2024. The author went through the...
Someone who attends Samaritan’s Heart Mission Church recently shared something very powerful on Facebook: If you're having sex before marriage, come to church anyway. If you are a drug addict trying to beat addiction, come to church anyway. If you were out drunk all night the night before,...
I am a big fan of the streaming series “The Chosen.” It chronicles the ministry of Jesus Christ, as portrayed by actor Jonathan Roumie. In an episode focusing on Jesus’ feeding of more than 5,000 people with five loaves and two fish, Jesus says “I...
Have you ever heard the expression “True North?” If that doesn’t sound familiar, odds are it’s among the items from elementary school that you’ve long forgotten. You see, a compass does not point to “True North.” It points to “Magnetic North.” True North is the...
It was the moment every air traveler tries not to think about. On January 15, 2009, an Airbus A320-214 left LaGuardia Airport in New York for Charlotte, North Carolina. Shortly after takeoff, and still over metropolitan New York, the aircraft suffered double engine failure after...