Matthew 7:16 – Household Words:

Heroes and Villains. Jeremiah 42:19-22.

Old western movies employed the hat-color device: good guys wore white hats and bad guys wore black hats. There is even a Wikipedia page discussing the trope.[1] But the reality is not always so simple, particularly in the Bible. These are real people, not fictional characters, and the heroes seem to let us down atContinue reading “Heroes and Villains. Jeremiah 42:19-22.”

Some People LOVE Rules. John 9:16.

Some of us find our security in rules. Social rules—both written and unwritten, etiquette rules, grammar rules, rules on the job—there are rules for everything, and believe it or not, there are those among us who crave rules. Rules provide security. If I know the rules and follow the rules, the result I want isContinue reading “Some People LOVE Rules. John 9:16.”

How to Discern Truth About People. John 7; Matthew 7:16.

As we were promised in the 1990s, the internet has created an information superhighway. Trouble is, much of that information is unreliable. Some subjects are easy to handle. You can verify scientific and medical facts by tracking down reliable authorities. The same is true for history and other traditional school subjects. But other topics doContinue reading “How to Discern Truth About People. John 7; Matthew 7:16.”