... , he emphasized that David’s throne, in contrast to Saul’s, would endure (7:15–16), and this promise proves to be reliable. Illustrating the Text Sin’s consequences are persistent. Christian Biography: “Johnny Cash’s Song of Redemption,” by Ted Olson. In this piece Ted Olson talks about Johnny Cash’s (1932–2003) long journey to God. His was a hard-lived life; he was often drug addicted; he left his wife and family for June Carter; he was subject to the temptations of his lifestyle. Cash ...
... a land where Christianity is the dominant faith. After all, there are all kinds of suffering, all kinds of persecution. Some of you will remember a terrible event that occurred at the University of Arizona a few years ago. As reported by Ted Olson in Christianity Today magazine students were taking their mid-terms. Few of them even noticed when a fellow student named Robert Flores entered their classroom carrying a handgun. Flores walked up to the professor, Cheryl McGaffic, and asked her a strange question ...
... Satan's greatest strike against God, God brought out man's eternal salvation. Therefore, "We know that God works all things out together for the good of those who love Him." (Rom. 8:28) As many of you know, Barbara Olson, the former federal prosecutor and tv commentator, married to Solicitor General Ted Olson, called her husband twice in the final minutes of her tragic final flight. In her first call her last words were, "What do I tell the pilot to do?" She was cut off. She called him back and again with ...
