by Stuart | 21 Dec 2021 | Daniel, Devotionals
At the height of its popularity, Publishers Weekly reviewer, Lynn Garrett, wrote of Bruce Wilkinson’s The Prayer of Jabez, “It’s very evangelical and very American, this whole notion that if you know the right technique, the right form, that prayer will be efficient...
by Stuart | 20 Dec 2021 | Daniel, Devotionals
In the early 1970s, the editor of the now-defunct Evangelical Magazine asked J. I. Packer for a series of articles discussing the nature and character of God. Packer produced a new article every two months. At the end of the series, an editor offered to combine the...
by Stuart | 17 Dec 2021 | Daniel, Devotionals
Daniel 10–12 essentially record a single prophecy, but the chapter divisions are deliberate and we will consider each chapter on its own. The prophecy in these chapters is by far the most detailed in the entire book, with such minute detail that sceptics conclude that...
by Stuart | 16 Dec 2021 | Daniel, Devotionals
There are some Sunday school songs that are almost pointless in their superficiality. While they retell Bible stories, they do so in such a perfunctory fashion that the lyrics contain no real lessons for the Christian walk. You may fondly remember singing “Father...
by Stuart | 15 Dec 2021 | Daniel, Devotionals
Daniel 8 continues the somewhat perplexing series of visions that Daniel received regarding human history between Babylon’s ascendancy and the coming of Christ. The dream of chapter 7 was given “in the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon” (7:1). The present...
by Stuart | 14 Dec 2021 | Daniel, Devotionals
As indicated in our introductory discussion to Daniel, chapter 7 shifts from Daniel in Babylon’s court to Daniel in heaven’s court. In the remainder of the book, Daniel receives and records a series of prophetic visions about world history leading up to and including...
