A friend recently made reference to a “plumb line” in a conversation we were having about Costa Mesa, which inspired me to do some research. She mentioned she attended a local church service that ...

Editor’s note: This article is a reprint from Feb. 10, 2013. We do not like to talk with any degree of seriousness about consequences, especially if those consequences involve penalty and punishment ...

God asks the same question twice in Amos 7:8 and 8:2, “What do you see, Amos?” Amos saw two different things. First, he saw a plumb line; second, he saw a basket of ripe fruit. The plumb line ...

“The Lord was standing beside a wall ... with a plumb line in his hand,” Amos 8:7. “So the law was our pedagogue until Christ came,” Galatians 3:24. Talking to a veteran carpenter and fairly new ...