Honor Your Father and Mother: What the Bible Means in Difficult Families
What does it actually mean to honor your father and mother when family life is complicated? A dependent child does not stand in the…
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What Was the Star of Bethlehem? What Matthew Tells Us
What exactly did the Magi see when they followed the Star of Bethlehem? Matthew tells us what the star did without explaining what it…
The Book of Amos: God’s Warning to a Comfortable Nation
Why would God send a prophet to warn Israel when the nation looked prosperous and strong? Amos shows us that comfort can hide deep…
The Sabbath: What Does the Bible Teach Christians Today?
Christians can easily talk past each other when the Sabbath comes up because we may not be asking the same question. Are we talking…
Stephen in the Bible: Service, Courage, and Forgiveness
Stephen is often remembered for the way he died, but Acts first introduces him when widows are being overlooked. I want to follow his…
Martha in the Bible: More Than the Busy Sister
What are we supposed to learn from Martha? She is often remembered only as the busy sister whom Jesus corrected, but that is not…
The Pharisees: Who Were They and Why Did Jesus Rebuke Them?
The Pharisees appear so often in the Gospels that it is easy to picture them as simple religious villains. But who were they, what…
Why Did Satan Want the Body of Moses? Jude Explained
Jude tells us that Michael disputed with the devil over Moses’ body, but he never explains what Satan wanted. That unanswered question is the…
The Levite’s Concubine: Understanding the Horror of Judges 19
Why would God preserve a chapter as terrible as Judges 19? The account of the Levite’s concubine is painful to read, and it should…
The Twelve Tribes and Twelve Apostles: What Is the Link?
Why does Scripture keep bringing the twelve tribes and the twelve apostles together? There is a real pattern here, especially when we reach the…
Cherubim in the Bible: What Are They?
What are cherubim? The little winged figures of later art do not prepare us for the guardians at Eden, the figures over the mercy…
Hell and the Lake of Fire: What Does the Bible Teach?
Hell is not a subject for jokes, and it should never become a threat we use carelessly in an argument. The Bible speaks about…