July 12, 2020 Heinrich Heine was born to a Jewish family in Dusseldorf, Germany in 1797.  He was poet, journalist and literary critic.  It’s interesting to note his cousin was Karl Marx, with whom he shared a friendship, although they disagreed politically.  In fact, for his political views, Nazi Germany later burned Heine’s works.  I’m not sure if it […]

July 5, 2020 When I was in the banking industry years ago, I was a branch manager for awhile.  It was a busy branch, so we had lots of tellers.  Here’s an interesting bit if trivia for you.  Before WWII, most bank tellers were men.  But, during the war, as the men went off to fight, the tellers became […]

June 28, 2020 Last week, we spent a lot of time talking about why Peter was the author of the book that bears his name: II Peter.  But we didn’t talk a lot about Peter himself.  Anyone who’s read the NT knows Peter played a central role.  In all the lists of the disciples, he’s always mentioned first.  Not just first […]

June 21, 2020 Have you ever heard someone say, the Bible was written by men, and is therefore filled with, at best, myth and legend, and at worst, propaganda, contradictions, and errors?  That atheists are growing, Christianity is dying, and God is already dead.  Life after death is simply the wistful longings of weak people who cannot […]