by Edward Thal | Jul 2, 2024 | Article
The gift of salvation is transformative – it makes “all things new” (2 Corinthians 5:17). Yet this marvelous restoration of what God intended for us in the beginning, before sin entered the human heart, cannot be fully appreciated when it is first experienced because...
by Edward Thal | Jun 25, 2024 | Article
Doubts or questions about what the future holds should be eased by the simple, powerful, unequivocal statement that opens the Scriptures: In the beginning, God! The familiar words are compelling in their brevity. The powerful majesty of creation is sketched with...
by Edward Thal | Jun 19, 2024 | Article
Jesus invites little children to come to Him. The Apostle Paul, a brilliant religious scholar, declares emphatically in his letter to the Corinthians that he values God’s power much more than his own intellect. What the worldly wise consider foolishness says...
by Edward Thal | Jun 11, 2024 | Article
The Apostle Peter was a rough, outspoken fisherman. Brave and impulsive, his habit was never to look before he leaped. It often landed him in trouble, as on the notable occasion when he declared that he would die for Jesus and heard the sad reply that he would...
by Edward Thal | May 29, 2024 | Article
Someone has said that we do not go by our own energy and genius from dust to glory, but from dust to dust. Such cold certainty exposes the absurdity of men seeking to dethrone God—but it doesn’t discourage them from trying! Confirmed atheists are a particularly...
