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Doctors sometimes refer to high blood pressure as “the silent killer” because people often do not know they have it until the damage happens. This article is not about physical health, but another silent killer condemned in the Scriptures.
Two relatively unknown men named Lamech provide great insight into matters of faith.
Faith is sometimes sold in a style similar to “made for tv” products. The sales pitch is spectacular, the results seem wonderful, and the journey appears to be easy.
There is something inherently wrong with an attitude of general distrust. When we can no longer believe in any one else, it may be we have too highly appraised ourselves.
Most of us have come to recognize that growing up involves developing mentally and emotionally as well as physically. Unfortunately, some have not learned this and we sometimes see little people living in grown bodies!
Throughout the Bible there are many occurrences of God calling someone to perform a particular work for him. We can learn many things about what God desires in the people he chooses.
The early pages of Genesis provide several inspired vignettes highlighting man’s problem with sin. Within these, three deal with men of the soil. The problem begins with the very first man, Adam.
Not many conversations these days, even very brief ones, fail to contain a reference to the times in which we are living. The pandemic is touching every aspect of our lives.
Noah and Lot have much in common. Both lived in worlds fixated on evil. Both received divine instruction on escaping coming punishment of evil, and both could take their families with them. Sadly, both also became inebriated after their God-given escape, and both had problems with children as a result.
