You Can Be Glad the Lord Is King

Jonah 3:6 For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes In the spring of 1950, my grandfather Bill Rice had the high privilege of having a brief audience with King...

How God Deals with People

Jonah 1:2 Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me What do you think of when you think of the story of Jonah? You probably think of Jonah and the whale or, yes, the great fish. When I think of Jonah, I think...

Pride is Independence from God

Obadiah 3 The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee Are you an independent person? Is that good? As an American, I look at independence as almost a complete good in every context. We think of the Declaration of Independence. Some people aren’t just Baptist, they are...

We Misperceive in the Dark

Amos 2:6 Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof Years ago, I took a jeep trail in Northern Arizona to a place called Havasu Point. It is basically a peninsula that juts out into the middle of...

God Will Restore When We Return

Joel 2:25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you One year I was on a roll. In our travels pulling my travel trailer I nearly ran out of fuel three...