Three sources have inspired this sermon, one literary, one Biblical and one, shall we say, contemporary. The literary inspiration was provided by a man named Horatio Alger, whom I suspect virtually none of you have ever heard of. But in the late 19th century and...
The difficulty of this passage roots in the conundrum that what seems to be the specific will of God in this instance so clearly contradicts the general will of God throughout the Bible. Throughout the Old Testament God unequivocally commands the Hebrew people not to...
