by Dr Delron Shirley | Jan 31, 2019 | Meditations
More tragic than the personal disappointment of not being able to build the temple is the fact that David’s misdeeds injured and even took the lives of those who followed him. There are at least four such episodes in David’s life in which his rebellious, senseless, or...
by Dr Delron Shirley | Dec 30, 2018 | Meditations
The one failure that comes to mind immediately when we think of King David is his moral failure with Bathsheba. The eleventh chapter of II Samuel records the story of how David spied her one evening as she bathed on the roof of the neighboring villa. Some students...
by Dr Delron Shirley | Nov 27, 2018 | Meditations, Mission Report, Special Report
Family News Last year, we opened our Christmas letter by saying that our family had not grown during the last year – not even a new granddog. Well, this year we have exciting news – Christopher, our middle son, covered both of those bases. Yes, we have a new granddog...
by Dr Delron Shirley | Nov 27, 2018 | Meditations
The wise men seem out of place in the Gospel of Matthew. If this volume is — as most Bible students say — written for the Jewish people to read, why did Matthew include this story of gentile astrologers at the nativity? Why did he not relate to us the...
by Dr Delron Shirley | Oct 31, 2018 | Meditations
I had the privilege of visiting the African nation of Zambia during the time that it was rewriting its constitution. One of the issues on the table was the question as to whether the constitution should declare the country to be a Christian nation. Although several...
by Dr Delron Shirley | Sep 26, 2018 | Meditations
When I was growing up, I would often hear the pastor preach about salvation, using terms like, “If I you die without Christ, you will split hell wide open,” or “Come to Jesus before it is everlasting too late.” With that kind of cohesion and very descriptive images of...
