Just this week I overheard a conversation in which a small business owner was boasting out loud, “I’m my own boss.” As I pondered his braggadocio, I said to myself, Sounds like good work if you can get it.

On another occasion I remember hearing a fellow with a rebel’s h...

Dr. John R. Rice (Archives)

“Then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Who is on the Lord’s side? let him come unto me.”

—Exod. 32:26.

Exodus 32 tells the sad story of the backsliding of the children of Israel while Moses was on the mount receiving the Ten Comma...

“For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.

“Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble;

“Every man’s work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be reveal...

“Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomor­rah.”—Isa. 1:9.
 

When Isaiah laid out the case against Judah and Jerusalem, it was not a pretty picture that he gave.
 

He told them th...