It is so comforting and strengthening to be reminded we're not in it alone.

Who's the audience for the Proverbs? Easy answer, right in the opening verses. It's addressed to the simple, the youth, the wise, the understanding. For the purpose of improving them all.

Is it possible we’re living under a self-inflicted famine?

Why do we have two accounts for the “Sermon on the Mount”?

As they’d agreed, they meet while it’s still dark.  A few of them have brought what spices they’ve been able to locate.  Quietly, they take the short walk out of the city to the cemetery.  The moon is going down as the sunrise begins. 

We probably all have a pretty good idea what "predestination" is not. It is not “eternal security;" it is not “once saved, always saved.” But the question here is, what does it mean?

When Jesus says he will cast out the ruler of “this world” he’s talking specifically about the Jewish world, not the world in general.

Do we feel like aliens and exiles, with our citizenship elsewhere?

“My heart overflows with a pleasing theme; I address my verses to the king…”

“We are all brothers!” has been a frequent cry of both Russians and Ukrainians. History, ethnicity, culture, and language proves this to be true.

“O YHWH, our Lord, how majestic is your name in all the earth!”  Thus begins, and ends, Psalm 8—one of the loveliest passages in scripture.