Photo of the Week

A glory gilds the sacred page,

Majestic like the sun:

It gives a light to every age;

It gives, but borrows none.

My soul rejoices to pursue

The steps of Him I love,

Till glory break upon my view

In brighter worlds above.

- from a hymn by William Cowper

Quote of the Week

“There is only one way of victory over the bitterness and rage that comes naturally to us--to will what God wills brings peace.”

- Amy Carmichael

Update

Dear readers, I have a bit of exciting news--I have yet another of my writing projects that has been picked up for publication! It's another theological work, in this case focusing on the historical missiology of the early church. The working title is "For All People Everywhere: Missionary Motivations in Early Christianity," and it's the fruit of a lot of study over the years in patristic texts and early mission movements. My hope is that it might be out in the first half of 2023.

Since that project is demanding a bit of my time, and with Thanksgiving coming up, I'm going to take a quick break from the blog until Monday, Nov. 28, at which point normal posts will resume.

Photo of the Week

O Splendor of God's glory bright,

From light eternal bringing light,

O Light, of light the fountain-spring,

O Day, all days illumining:

Come, very Sun of truth and love,

Pour down your radiance from above,

And shed the Holy Spirit's ray

On all we think or do today.

- from a hymn by Ambrose of Milan

Quote of the Week

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."

- Corrie ten Boom

A Prayer from Billy Graham

Lord … remind us today that You have shown us what is good in what You require of us; to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with our God. We ask that as a people, we may humble ourselves before You and seek Your will for our lives and for this great nation. Help us in our nation to work as never before to strengthen our families and to give our children hope and a moral foundation for the future. So may our desire be to serve You, and in so doing, serve one another. This we pray in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

Apologetics: The Prophesied Messiah (Dan. 9)

(Click here for an introduction and other installments of this series)

Lecture audio: The Prophesied Messiah

(click here to listen or right-click to download)

See the previous study published on this blog regarding the fulfilled prophecies of Daniel 9:

The Seventy Weeks of Daniel 9

Bottom Line: This prophecy, written several centuries before Christ, shows an astonishingly accurate prediction of the coming of Jesus, the Anointed One. His ministry occurs exactly within the window of 69x7 years after the decree of King Artaxerxes for the rebuilding of Jerusalem, just as predicted by Daniel hundreds of years beforehand. And with the coming of Christ, as Daniel foretells, comes “the end of sin, atoning of wickedness, and bringing in everlasting righteousness” (9:24). The passage also includes hauntingly accurate portrayals of destruction and judgment that recur in cycles of fulfillment during the Maccabean revolt (160s BC), the Jewish war against Rome (70 AD), and possibly also in the end times.