We all wish we knew more about Habakkuk. He tells us nothing about his background; he simply announcesthat he is a prophet with only three short chapters!  Why were these few words recorded for all the world to read for more than 2500+ years?

Vivimos en un mundo muy diferente al de hace unos sesenta años.  La visión general del mundo y de la cultura identifica a la razón con el naturalismo, y a la fe con los sentimientos, ¡y nunca los dos se deben encontrar!  Esta gran brecha se encuentra en todas las iglesias, así como en casi todas las instituciones académicas.

We live in a world today much different than even sixty years ago. The general world view and culture identifies reason with naturalism and faith with feelings—and never the twain should meet! And this great divide is in all churches as in virtually all academic institutions.

Stephen Hawkins, el notable matemático y cosmólogo de Cambridge University escribió en su libro de 1988, Una Breve Historia del Tiempo (p. 193) que si los científicos descubrieran la tan buscada "teoría del todo" para explicar los distintos mecanismos del universo, "realmente conoceríamos la mente de Dios".

Stephen Hawkins, that remarkable Cambridge University mathematician and cosmologist wrote in his 1988 book, A Brief History of Time, (193), that were scientists to discover the long-sought “theory of everything” to explain the varying mechanisms of the universe, “we would truly know the mind of God.”

Again we are grateful for Dr. Paulien's crisp, literary pen as he digs out the salient features of Paul's remarkable letters to the Thessalonians. He rights with one eye on Paul and the other on us today--we who must understand Paul through twenty-first century eyes.

Even these eleven verses in 1 Thess. 5 give us plenty to thank Paul for, and plenty to digest and adjust our thinking to.

I have lived long enough to be amazed at how many ways and kinds of people God uses in this grand work of inviting/welcoming others into His living kingdom.

Let's begin with the Douglass family in Springfield, Massachusetts, back in the late 1930s. At that time I had three brothers and we lived upstairs in what we called a tenement (today, of course, it was a condo!). My Dad had just bought a 1933 Dodge that was quite a treat for us all, including the neighborhood kids.

(Traducido por Carlos Enrique Espinosa)

 El título del estudio de esta semana me parece algo interesante: Jesús nunca usó el término "justificación" y la Biblia nunca usa el término "justificación por la fe sola".

I find the title for this week’s study somewhat interesting: Jesus never used the term “justification” and the Bible never used the term “justification by faith alone.”

But Jesus surely spoke plainly about how sinners become right with Him. How many times does Jesus emphasize: “If you obey my teaching, you are really my disciples; you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. . . . I am telling you the truth: everyone who sins is a slave of sin. If the Son sets you free, then you will be really free” (John 8:31, 34-36, GNB)