It’s one of the greatest accounts in all of the Old Testament. It involves jealousy, intrigue, desperate attempts at rescue, certain death but also miraculous escape. Included among the key figures are King Darius, the mightiest man in the superpower of the Medes and Persians and the king of the jungle – hungry and powerful lions eager for their next meal. But…
Their necks were on the line. Heads were going to roll if King Nebuchadnezzar didn’t get a satisfactory answer. But the request seemed absolutely beyond all reason. How is it possible to know what another man has dreamed if the dreamer doesn’t tell the dream. The “wise men” were right to be alarmed. But Daniel and his three companions prayed and received…
Psalm 137 is a lament of the captive Jews who have been carried away to exile in Babylon. When asked to sing a song of home the exiled ask “How can we sing the Lord’s song in a foreign land?” The answer comes to us in the life of Daniel. Here was a man of unimpeachable character who honoured the one true…