The Tree of Life runs like a thread from the first pages of the Bible to the last. It shows what God meant for people in the beginning, what sin damaged, and what God will restore in the end. The first time we meet it is in Eden, described in Genesis 2:9, and the...
God’s providence and provision show up all across the Bible, but we have to talk about them the way Scripture talks. God really does hold His world together and He really does care for His people, yet He also tells us plainly to expect trouble in this life....
The Bible uses the word law in a few different ways. If we do not sort that out, we will slide into one of two ditches: either we try to earn salvation, or we shrug off God’s commands like they do not matter. Psalm 19:7 is a good doorway into the subject because it...
Fear of God gets twisted in a lot of minds. Some people turn it into a nervous feeling. Others treat it like something from the Old Testament that the New Testament replaced. Deuteronomy 10:12-22 will not let us do either. Moses talks about fear of the LORD as a...
People often hope God will accept them because they meant well, tried hard, and did more good than bad. Romans 3:19-26 takes that hope into God’s courtroom and asks what happens when God measures us by His standard, not ours. Paul shows that God’s law exposes guilt...
Proverbs does not treat wisdom like a hobby for thoughtful people. It treats wisdom like survival, and it starts by putting God where He belongs. Proverbs 1:7 says the fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, and it sets that against the fool who despises...
When we open the Bible to the subject of angels, we need to let the text set the boundaries. Michael is one of the few angels named in Scripture, and he shows up in key places where God pulls the curtain back just enough for us to see that real spiritual conflict...
Paul does not let us imagine a life with no real master. As we open Romans 6:16-23, he puts two masters side by side, shows what each one produces, and then presses us to live like people who have truly been transferred from one to the other. Everyone serves...
Job puts a plain line in the sand about purity, and he puts it where most of us would rather keep things fuzzy. In Job 31:1 he says he made a covenant with his eyes, because he understood how fast a look can turn into desire and then into choices. He is not...
God does not call His people to follow a vague, unknown deity. He speaks, He acts in real history, and He tells us who He is. In Exodus 3:13-15, Moses asks what he should say when Israel wants to know the name of the God who sent him. The Lord answers by giving His...
