John Adair is a graduate of Dallas Theological Seminary with a doctor of philosophy degree in theological studies and serves in Creative Ministries at Insight for Living where he has contributed as a writer for Bible Companions, Learn Online curriculum, booklets, and articles.
In the latter half of the twentieth century and continuing through today, a rather significant push for peace has been made from many different corners of our world. People sickened by war, fed up with oppression, and weary of abuse have joined together in a fight against fighting. Ironically, many Christians—followers of the Prince of […]
Read MoreStanding alone usually means being isolated from comfort. Martin Luther relished the solitary fight between himself and papal prosecutors. However, solitary confinement was quite another battle. For ten months in 1521–22, Luther faced a devilish adversary—loneliness. A few days after the infamous Diet of Worms, a band of armed horsemen halted Luther’s carriage. With a […]
Read MoreWhen we study the Lord’s Prayer—one of the most familiar passages in all of Scripture—we tend to miss certain details, to pass over bits of information because we’ve spoken or read or heard it so many times. This is often the case with the Lord’s Prayer, which begins with the regularly ignored word our. Our […]
Read More“You should be ashamed of yourself!” No doubt many of us as kids heard remarks like that from our mom or dad. Maybe we had lied, played with matches, or been stopped for speeding in our mom’s car. Whatever the infraction, we all implicitly knew (and rightly so) that we should feel bad about the […]
Read MoreWhen the Lord—from a burning bush—called Moses to be His prophet, the sheepherder initially resisted the call. Moses came up with a variety of excuses—the first of which shows that his perspective was completely out of whack. When God told Moses to go and speak divine words to Pharaoh, Moses answered, “Who am I, that […]
Read MoreFrom his deathbed, David told his son, Solomon, to follow the Lord’s statutes closely. And looking simply at the results, the early years of Solomon’s reign seem to bear the principle that David spoke: “Walk in His ways . . . keep His statutes . . . that you may succeed in all that you […]
Read MoreChrist’s church has fallen into a troubling rut. Studies show that Christians know less of the Bible than at any other time in recent history. The level of Bible knowledge has decreased even among our best and brightest. One administrator of more than 20 years at a Christian college noted, “Our assumption now is that […]
Read MoreWhen the book of Judges opens, the people of Israel had just come off of the experience of a great victory—they had conquered the land of Canaan and divided the land among themselves. When their leader Joshua died, however, no one stepped in to take his place. And this was the plan of God, to […]
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