This week we continue our analysis of the book of Hosea, as a reminder let me give you the historical setting. Hosea prophesied about the time the city of Rome was built, the beginning of the Olympiads, and during the reign of four …
At a Feast of Tabernacles, my wife and I saw something that illustrates the double-mindedness of this world. Returning to the hotel after lunch, we pulled up to a stoplight. The car ahead sported a fake, bloody arm hanging out of the …
Jesus Christ was the most misunderstood man of His time, and not much has changed since. Part of that was intentional. Matthew 13:15 spells out why He spoke in parables: He intentionally wanted to blur the understanding of those …

(19) “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; (20) but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.
Houses in the ancient Middle East were frequently made of sun-baked clay or loose stones. Because of this, thieves found it comparatively easy to dig through the wall to enter and steal. Thieves represent the ungodly world that …
At the hospital where I work, management often talks about productivity. Productivity is “the measure of what is produced—output—divided by what resources are used in its production—input.” Productivity percentage measures how efficiently something is produced compared to a predefined standard. At the hospital, managers speak about productivity in terms of human resource hours and other equipment or supplies used to evaluate, care for, and discharge a patient or transfer one to another unit. My boss is happy that she only has to input the numbers, and a computer program spits out the …
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