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Several years ago Dan Van Ness, then president of Justice Fellowship wrote A Call to Dialogue on Capital Punishment. It was not meant to take sides on the death penalty, but rather explore some of the important issues raised by the various sides. This article is excerpted from Dan’s monograph. Dan now works with PrisonContinue reading “THE DEATH PENALTY”

ContextThe Testimony of Two or Three Witnesses…Then the rest of the people will hear and be afraid, and they will never again do anything so evil among you. You must show no pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, and foot for foot. Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary19:15-21 Sentence shouldContinue reading “Deuteronomy 19:21”

June 20th Have you come to “when” yet? And the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. Job 42:10. The plaintive, self-centred, morbid kind of prayer, a dead-set that I want to be right, is never found in the New Testament. The fact that I am trying to be rightContinue reading “My Utmost for His Highest”

June 20 “Thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.” (Isa. 30:21) WHEN we are in doubt or difficulty, when many voices urge this course or the other, when prudence utters oneContinue reading “Streams in the Desert”

20 JUNE Be poor in spirit ‘Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.’ Matthew 5:3SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Luke 5:1–11 To be poor in spirit is to be humble, to know ourselves, and to judge ourselves to be what we are. There would be no excellency in this poverty ofContinue reading “365 days with Newton”