The Surprising Reason Chronicles is in the Bible

Why is the book of Chronicles in the Bible? It was written after the book of Kings and covers much of the same material, from the end of Saul’s reign until the final destruction of Jerusalem in 586 B.C.E. Chronicles tacks on at the very end that Cyrus the Great of Persia allowed the exiles to return to...

Kidolatry: Growing Up in the Modern World

4th in the series, “Modern Family?” Larry L. Eubanks, First Baptist Church, Frederick, Maryland, April 24, 2016 In 2004, Dr. Carolina Izquierdo, an anthropologist at UCLA, spent several months in Peru living among a tribe of about 12,000 people called the Matsigenka. This tribe lives along the Amazon. Now,...

Parenting in the Modern World

3rd in the series, “Modern Family?” Ephesians 6:1-4 Larry L. Eubanks, First Baptist Church, Frederick, Maryland, April 17, 2016 Maybe you know who comedian Jim Gaffigan is. He has five children. Yeah, I know. Nowadays if a couple has more than three kids, the whispers start behind their backs. “Don’t they...

What It Means to be Persecuted Like the Prophets

“Blessed are you when people revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.” (Matthew 5:11-12) I’ll start with something obvious:...

Marriage in the Modern World

Larry L. Eubanks, First Baptist Church, Frederick, Maryland, April 10, 2016 Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ. Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife just as Christ is the head of the church, the body of which he is the Savior....

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