Crisis

Judas Brings a Mob to Arrest Jesus

While Jesus was speaking Judas arrived in the garden with a large crowd (v. 47). They had swords, clubs, torches and lanterns (John 18:3). Judas had arranged a signal with the officials that the one he kissed would be the one to arrest (vv. 48-49). When Judas called Jesus “Rabbi,” there is no …

Isaiah’s Prophecy

Warren Wiersbe says that “a crisis does not make a person; it shows what a person is made of.” Hezekiah faced three crises during his reign as king. There was an international crisis, which was the invasion of the Assyrian army. There was a personal crisis, which was a sickness where he …

IllustrationWho Teen Girls Go to For Council

A recent survey by America’s most popular teen magazine revealed that only 4.1% of the teenage girls in America feel they could to go to their father to talk about a serious problem. Even more recently, USA Today published the eye-opening results of a study of teens under s …

IllustrationThink First Then Act

Navy Law: If you can keep your head when all about you others are losing theirs, maybe you just don’t understand the situation. Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, “Is this thing still flying?” If the answer …