• We Were Made for a Theocracy

    “If we elect (insert name of undesired candidate here), it will be end of democracy in America!” Some version of this statement was made by people of both parties in the last election. As the campaign season progressed, both parties became more and more vehement in their predictions of the terrible things that would happen…

  • Bright Morning Star

    About fifteen years ago, Leon Patillo released a beautiful praise song called Star of the Morning. I still absolutely love that song. I admit that at the time the song was released, I was not studying the Bible with nearly as much intention as I do now. Furthermore, until recently I avoided studying the book…

  • Root of David/Shoot from the Stump of Jesse

    Revelation uses this name for Jesus in chapters 5 and 22. In Rev 5:5, one of the elders around the heavenly throne tells John not to weep, because “the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals.”1 In Rev 22:16,…