IntroductionAt Harvard College in the eighteenth century, hell was the first doctrine discarded. It was an offense to rationalism that a loving God sends people to hell. They didn’t pretend the Bible ...  Read More

The Sanhedrin had been crowned, anointed, and named the official power brokers of Israel. When the rogue rabbi from Nazareth showed up, they claimed the right to kill him, as much as a Scot has a righ...  Read More

IntroductionTrouble sleeping? There is danger in too little sleep (Prov. 3:24). We wish we could, like Jesus, remain “asleep on the cushion” in a boat tossed by the storm and battered by the waves (Mk...  Read More

Ephesians 5:4, “Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.”IntroductionPaul’s command to not make crude jokes is found...  Read More

The StoryAbsalom, David’s third son, is a character painted in the vivid and tragic hues of Scripture. He is introduced as a man of striking appearance, a veritable Adonis born in Hebron to Maacah (2 ...  Read More

Heavenly Father, You are the God who made heaven and earth. You are the God of all help (Ps. 121:2) and all comfort (2 Cor. 1:3). You are the God who keeps, guards, and protects (Ps. 121:3, 4, 5, 7, 7...  Read More

The StoryBible readers are well-acquainted with the luminous figures of the Old Testament: the first Adam, the venerable Abraham, and the illustrious Patriarchs, not forgetting the liberating Moses, t...  Read More

1 Corinthians 7:2-5, “But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, a...  Read More

At this stage of life, you will increasingly interact with more people outside your familiar circle of family and church. The contemporaries you interact with won’t have a true north. They are a motle...  Read More

IntroductionStress is a dis-ease—the deprivation of ease; the reduction of comfort. The word stress is derived from distress. Someone is in distress when they experience hardships, straits, adversity,...  Read More

IntroductionThe thesis statement of this essay, laconically stated in the title, is derived from Romans 1:18-21.“For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousnes...  Read More

Our first parents, being seduced by the subtlety and temptations of Satan, sinned in eating the forbidden fruit. This their sin God was pleased, according to His wise and holy counsel, to permit, havi...  Read More