“The best and the brightest.” The same phrase could have been used to describe Saul of Tarsus; a child of the best upbringing; a student of the vaunted teacher, Gamaliel; a Roman citizen; trained in the best Jewish schools; groomed to become a national leader in Israel. And this pious man was bent on the destruction of the believers in Jesus. In order to understand Saul of Tarsus it is important that we put him into historical context. Only a few short years had passed from t

Jesus was having what we, in the natural, would call a ‘bad day’. He had just received the news that the person who most understood him, his cousin, the prophet John the Baptist, had been wantonly murdered to fulfill a shallow promise by a lustful king. Jesus, though he was God, was also human, with human emotions. When he received this tragic news he just wanted to get away from it all. Matthew tells us: Now when Jesus heard about John, He withdrew from there in a boat to a

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It's interesting to look back over the Twentieth Century and to study presidential elections in America. Beginning with the boisterous enthusiasm of Teddy Roosevelt who set the tone for what became 'the American Century," optimism and vision have always won the day. Across the globe we are seeing hopeful signs, even amidst the dangers of the War on Terror – even amidst the strongholds of false religions in Asia and Africa – even amidst the stronghold of secularism in Europe a

A few years ago I visited the Spanish fortress at St. Augustine, Florida, while on vacation. I'm somewhat of a history fan, so I like to stop at interesting sites I find as I drive. On this day I saw a sign for Fort Matanzas National Monument and decided to check it out. Being a student of American history I had heard of the massacre of the French Huguenot settlers in Florida, but I had not visited the sites where it took place. As I joined the tour at Fort Matanzas (meaning