Serious About Scripture

Please read the poem. It isn’t what you have ever been called perhaps — “a spinning fox.” But it may describe you at times. Demons are real and they are spirits that have the nature of their father, Satan. Like that father, they are riled by righteousness. They cannot help this; and, they will never reform. Like their father they wish to destroy you in every way they can. Jesus called Satan “a liar and a murderer” (Jn 8:44). With…

A powerful story from Jesus emphasizing His confidence in the truthfulness, authority and gospel content of the Old Testament— THE RICH MAN (tormented in hades addressing Abraham in heaven or paradise): “Then I beg you father, that you send him [Lazarus] to all my father’s house, for I have five brothers, in order that he may warn them, so that they will not also come to this place of torment.” ABRAHAM: “They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear…

When you visit an art museum, what appeals to you? For me, among the various genres of art and subjects of any one presentation, I am most drawn to what is beautiful or majestic or inspiring, and is realistic and revealing of the true nature of things, or perhaps the true inner nature of things. I don’t mind the idealizing of some of these paintings. The caustic, crude, and often ugly paintings for stark idealogical messaging are generally ruled out…