The Parable of the Two Sons: What It Means
Why did Jesus tell a story about two sons right after the religious leaders questioned His authority? The answer reaches back to John the…
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God Will Not Forsake You: What the Promise Means
What does God mean when He promises not to leave or forsake His people? Suffering can make Him feel far away, and a peaceful…
The Blessed Hope: What Is It?
What does Paul mean when he calls Christ’s appearing “the blessed hope”? He is not giving the Church a vague promise that life will…
The Abrahamic Covenant: What God Promised Abraham
What did God actually promise when He called Abraham? The answer reaches from the land of Canaan and the nation of Israel all the…
The Mercy Seat: What It Was and How It Points to Christ
The mercy seat is one of those Old Testament details that can be hard to picture. What exactly was it, why was blood sprinkled…
The Book of Joel: Repentance, the Spirit, and the Day of the Lord
Joel opens on a land stripped bare. Worship has stopped because the harvest is gone, and even the animals are crying out for water.…
Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 4: Humiliation and Restoration
Daniel 4 lets us hear Nebuchadnezzar tell the story of his own humiliation. I find that unusual and deeply sobering: the king who once…
Enoch in the Bible: The Man Who Walked With God
Enoch appears for only a few lines in Genesis, but those lines have made people curious for generations. Who was this man who walked…
New Wine and Old Wineskins: What Jesus Meant
Jesus’ saying about new wine and old wineskins is often treated as a general lesson about change. But why did He use that picture…
Crushing the Serpent’s Head: Genesis 3:15 Explained
Genesis 3:15 is only one verse, but I keep coming back to how far its promise reaches. God spoke it just after sin entered…
The Book of Hosea: Judgment, Mercy, and Restored Love
Hosea is sometimes remembered only as the story of a faithful prophet and an unfaithful wife, but the book reaches much further than that.…
The Bronze Serpent: How It Points to Jesus on the Cross
The bronze serpent is one of those Old Testament signs that can seem strange until Jesus tells us what it means. Israel was dying,…