Results

The Russian legislature recently passed a bill that will prohibit people from sharing their faith, even inside their own homes. Only with a permit could people evangelize at religious sites like churches. It will be illegal anywhere else, even online. While this may sound serious, I wonder how many of…

It is against the law to insult the King of the Netherlands. A 44-year-old Dutchman, unidentified by police, posted a Facebook rant describing the King as a murderer, rapist, and thief. A court found the man guilty of cursing the Dutch king and sentenced him to 30 days in Jail. The second commandment…

God does not make laws denying us anything that would really be for our good. There is a poisonous berry growing in your garden, and your child has been told that he is not to eat it. If he is a wise child, he will understand that it is your love to him that has told him not to eat that poisonous berry.…

When a person dies there are laws covering how their property is passed on to relatives. The growing use of social media has made some issues of inheritance more confusing. Companies like Google and Facebook contend laws approved decades ago that prevent them from releasing electronic memories unless…

Psychologist and researcher Judith Wallerstein spent 25 years studying the results of the shift in divorce laws that occurred in the 1970’s. No fault divorce swept the nation beginning in 1969, and by 1980, the divorce rate had doubled. Wallerstein was asking the question, “what about the children?”…

According to tradition, in 1357 a Swiss man named Konrad Mueller killed another man named Heinrich Stucki. Part of the punishment was that Mueller and all subsequent owners of the farm had to give a local church 70 Swiss francs ($76 US) a year to cover the cost of candles and oil to keep an eternal lamp…

Posted: 06/29/11 07:24 AM ET Several days ago, a historic vote in the state of New York, pushed aggressively by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, legalized the practice of same-sex marriage. Such an action was certainly a momentous decision for marriage equality rights in the LGBT community. The vote was not exactly…

N.H. Legalizes 'Gay Marriage' With Religious Protections Last week, New Hampshire became the sixth state to legalize homosexual "marriage." The revised bill includes religious exemptions which specify that all religious organizations, associations, or societies have exclusive control over their religious…

Imagine a country in which there were no traffic laws whatsoever. There were plenty of cars, but no rules about how those cars can be driven. No speed limits, no minimum age requirements, no safety standards, no "no parking" signs, no dotted lines down the middle of the road, no stop lights, no drunk…

Inheritance – on an advanced test a student was asked: A multi-billionaire with assets equaling $250,127,653,702.32 died and left one-tenth of his money to his ex-wife, one-tenth each of his two kids, two-tenth to his trusted butler, and the rest to charity. How much money did the ex-wife get? The student…

Today's culture tells us that Freedom and Authority are opposites. However, if there were no driving laws, how free would you be to go out onto the road and drive? Source: James Beeke, Fall, 2008

Just as a mine detector is used to reveal the presence of an IED, so the law reveals the presence of sin in the life of man. Yet the mine detector cannot disable the explosive device. That is not its function. It merely points to the reality of the threat. So the law was never meant to irradicate sin,…

Charles Spurgeon, called the Prince of Preachers, stated, “I do not believe that any man can preach the gospel who does not preach the Law. The Law is the needle, and you cannot draw the silken thread of the gospel through a man’s heart unless you first send the needle of the Law to make way for it.”…

Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law. That the Greeks, so far as our knowledge goes, were the first to achieve this recognition and this freedom in both philosophy and government is the secret of their accomplishment, and of their importance in history. The Story of Civilization…

Just as the canary is taken down into the mine shaft in order to alert the miners of the presence of poisonous gas, so the law points to the reality of sin. Yet the canary does not have the ability to rid the air of the gas. In the same way the law does not take away sin, but merely reveals its pres…

The Bible says in Psalm 19:7, “The law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul.” Scripture makes it very clear that it is the Law that actually converts the soul. To illustrate the function of God’s Law, let’s look for a moment at civil law. Imagine if I said to you, “I’ve got some good news for you:…

Mauna Kea, Hawaii (peak: over 13, 000ft --- Grouse Mountain is a pathetic 3000 ft) --- Highest mountain in the world (counting base (underwater to peak). Its location is sought after by astronomers b/c of clear and dark nights (over 300 viewing nights a year). And therefore many telescopes have been…

A little boy was riding his tricycle furiously around the block, over and over again. Finally a policeman stopped and asked him why he was going around and around. The boy said that he was running away from home. The policeman asked why he kept going around the block. The boy responded, "Because my mom…

Some parents in Frisco, Texas, are fuming because their public school district allowed Christian evangelists to provide Bibles to students on school grounds, which administrators say was done to stop even more proselytizing outside the schools. Frisco Independent Schools allowed Gideons International…

About three-fourths of the German autobahn road system has no blanket speed limit; and in those areas, the average speed is about 93 mph. While most European car manufacturers operate under a “gentleman’s agreement” to limit the top speeds of their cars to 155 mph, autobahn speeds of up to 186 mph are…

Dennis Lee Curtis was arrested in 1992 in Rapid City, South Dakota for armed robbery. . . . Curtis apparently had scruples about his thievery. In his wallet the police found a sheet of paper on which was written the following code, a sort of a robber’s rules: 1. I will not kill anyone unless I have to.…

After living a "decent" life, my time on earth came to an end. The first thing I remember is sitting on a bench in the waiting room of what I thought to be a court house. The doors opened and I was instructed to come in and have a seat by the defense table. As I looked around I saw the "prosecutor."…

Several years ago, there was a beautiful hotel that was built in Galveston, Texas, which jutted out over the water in the bay. It had these large plate glass windows that allowed you to look out over the Gulf of Mexico. And the balconies on each room made an ideal fishing pier! It seems that right after…

A policeman who weighs 140 pounds can stand before an 18-wheeler and with uplifted hand say, “Stop, in the name of the law.” He is appealing to an authority higher than himself. The truck stops because of that name or authority. The policeman certainly did not and could not stop the truck with physical…

There is a drug which has become a menace and a danger to mankind, especially to young people. It produces delusions of grandeur. It gives a feeling of exaltation. You can take a trip into a make-believe land out in the wild blue yonder, if you please. This is the experience of a young man in Los Angeles:…