by Jean Wilund | Oct 15, 2014 | Blog
“YES! ABSOLUTELY!” Those are the words that flew out of my mouth when Lori Hatcher, the editor of Reach Out, Columbia magazine, asked me if I wanted to write an article about Samkon Gado. Samkon not only graduated from my two oldest children’s...
by Jean Wilund | Oct 10, 2014 | Blog
When God came down to stop the people from building the Tower of Babel, He wasn’t being a fun-sucker. (Genesis 11:1-9) He was protecting them from the danger of exalting their own name. (In my series What Was So Wrong With The Tower of Babel? we looked at...
by Jean Wilund | Oct 1, 2014 | Blog
If God is sovereign (and He is) then He knew the people of Shinar were going to build a tower to their great name before they laid the first brick. Why didn’t He change their languages earlier, before they could gang up in Babel? Why did He even let them begin?...
by Jean Wilund | Sep 26, 2014 | Blog
The people of Shinar broke ground on their pride and joy — the tower they knew would stand for all time to their greatness. (See my post What Was So Wrong With the Tower of Babel — Part One for the first part of this story.) It was no doubt a glorious day...
by Jean Wilund | Sep 24, 2014 | Blog
“They said to one another, ‘Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, otherwise we will be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.’” ~ Genesis 11:4 The people of...