Paul (Dominion)

Paul lived among people who revered only the best. But Paul announced that God had chosen the foolish to shame the wise and the weak to shame the strong. In a world that took for granted the hierarchy of human chattels and their owners, he insisted that the distinctions between slave and free, now that … Read more

Allied with God (Dominion)

When God praised Job as blameless and upright; a man who fears God and shuns evil, the Satan responded mockingly that it is easy for the prosperous to be good. But if you take away everything man has, he will curse you. God accepted the wager and delivered Job into Satan’s hands. Job’s children were … Read more

Moral Values (Dominion)

As Holland studied Roman or Spartan culture, and its brutality, he noticed that it exuded a morality that was not his. Christian influence on Western civilization is so profound that it has come to be hidden from view. The Romans might have the rule of the world; the Greeks might have their philosophy; the Persians … Read more

The Resurrection (Dominion)

By enduring the most agonizing fate imaginable, he had conquered death itself. ‘Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth. The utter strangeness of all this, for … Read more