The Diatessaron was written in the midsecond century AD. It was the first known attempt at what we now call a harmony of the Gospels. The catalyst for this work was a real concern over the fact that the apostles Matthew and John, and two apostolic companions (Mark and Luke), had between them written four…

Ephesians 4:26 opens with two imperatives. The second imperative in the sequence is “and do not sin.” Interesting, and baffling, is the first imperative, “Be angry.” While I realize contextually, grammatically, and theologically that these imperatives are intended to be taken together as a unit, it remains fascinating that the apostle Paul begins the sentence…

The righteous for the unrighteous. That is the way it is with God. He makes the impossible possible. He turns the ordinary and everyday into the extraordinary. He makes the worthless valuable, and the rejected he makes family. He takes sinful human material and shapes us into holy sons and daughters of the Almighty. He…

Let not anyone pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong…

In 1998, the late Paul Allen (of Microsoft fame) purchased Charter Communications for $2.5 billion. Late the next year, after merging Charter with another company he owned (Marcus Cable), Allen took the company public. The initial share price for Charter was $19. On the first day of trading, the stock jumped 31%. Today, September 28,…