Gordon Moyes, pastor of Wesley Mission in Sydney, Australia, said in a recent sermon: "Taking life, even to eat, is never a trivial thing. God tells Moses: "For the life of a creature is in the blood...
Modern Jews call the Day of Atonement "Yom Kippur" and regard it as the holiest day on their calendar. On Rosh Hashanah, it is believed that God writes a "book" of each person's actions during the pas...
The week before Easter in Pampanga province in the Philippines, volunteers are crucified. Each remains on the cross for only a few minutes. The list of volunteers is so long that one must wait at leas...
According to a Ripley’s column, there is a Shinto ceremony where people feed the alcohol drink sake to carps and then release the fish, believing they will swim away, carrying the troubles of the pers...
Recently China announced the opening of what they call the "world’s longest sea bridge." ...
When C.H. Spurgeon was under the conviction of the Holy Spirit, he had a clear sense of the justice of God, and sin became an intolerable burden. He didn't fear hell as much as he despised the reality...
In an isolated corner of Ghana in Africa they have a strange idea of guilt and atonement. They believe that guilt involves the whole community. If there is no atonement by someone, the whole community...
When William the Conqueror defeated the English King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, he felt some remorse for the many who died there. So he built an Abbey to atone for all the blood shed. He built ...
During the 17th century, Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England, sentenced a soldier to be shot for his crimes. The execution was to take place at the ringing of the evening curfew bell. Howeve...
Feel the Darkness Some years ago my family visited a cave in the state of Kentucky. The guide led us through many beautiful and winding subterranean passageways. Suddenly he turned off all the lights ...
The primary purpose of the sacrificial system was worship. As Charles Ryrie has noted, the root of the word offering means to "draw near" to God. This is reflected in David's words: "May my prayer ...
Advent can be an antidote to the sinful slip into apathy, helping us to be astounded at the glory of God....
Read reformer Martin Luther's compelling meditation on the question of who really killed Christ....
The demise of the book has been predicted for years now – its doom supposedly inevitable after the advent of the digital age. Well, someone forgot to tell the reading public in general, and prea...
The victory over worldliness cannot be won by conforming to a list of rules. The battle is won through the power of the gospel applied to our daily choices....
his newest book, 3:16, Lucado explores that great passage we know as John 3:16. He recently visited with Preaching editor Michael Duduit about the sermon series that led to the book, then discussed hi...
1 Corinthians 2:12-13 Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit that is from God, so that we may understand the gifts bestowed on us by God. And we speak of these things in w...