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...
Luke 15 is not a random collection of nice thoughts about forgiveness. Jesus is answering a complaint, and that complaint tells you what to listen for as you read the parable of the Prodigal Son. Luke puts the issue right on the table in Luke 15:1-2: outsiders are...
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...
Exodus brings us to a moment where Pharaoh has refused every warning, and the Lord is about to finish what He started: He will bring Israel out, not by negotiation, but by judgment and redemption. Exodus 11:4-6 sets the stage for the last plague, the death of the...
John 4 shows a social divide, but it also shows a worship divide. A Samaritan woman raises an old argument about where God should be worshiped, and Jesus answers in a way that cuts through ancestry, location, and religious pride. In John 4:19-26, He brings her to...
Luke gives us a clear look at what Jesus does with a man everybody else had already written off. In Luke 19:1-10 Jesus meets Zacchaeus in Jericho, a wealthy chief tax collector with a ruined name, and we watch salvation land in a real house and start producing real...
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...
