It was—there's no nicer way to put it—an ugly day. Temperatures below zero, a gusty north wind pounding my windshield. I was driving from Lincoln, Nebraska, to Jamestown, North Dakota, following a black van. The bitter wind tugged on the car, and the van ahead kicked up little blizzards as it hit...
Jesus walked up to a small table in the synagogue in Nazareth, opened a scroll, and began to read: "'The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor, he has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the...
Dead people are supposed to stay dead—that's a fact of life. So when the Bible records the story of a wise man named Jesus traveling through Palestine 2,000 years ago, all seems well and good—until you come to the ending. Not only is Jesus killed, but then Scripture alleges that He rose from th...
Why did Jesus have to die?
Three essentials of the Christian faith
The dust hadn't even settled from Operation Desert Storm after Iraq invaded Kuwait in the early 1990s when I received an advertisement for a book predicting that this was the beginning of the end. Armageddon was about to be fought, the author said. In the book, the author painted a vivid picture ...