'I would rather speak five words with my understanding, that I may teach others also, than ten thousand words in a tongue.' --1 Corinthians 14:19 What could God possibly say to you in five words? ...

For more than two hundred years controversy has raged over the reliability of the Old Testament. Questions about the factuality of its colorful stories of heroes, villains, and kings, for example, have led many critics to see the entire Hebrew Bible as little more than pious fiction......

The book of 2 Samuel centers around the reign of Israel’s greatest king, David...

The LORD roars from Zion and thunders from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds dry up, and the top of Carmel withers.' So begins the p...

Ecclesiastes has much to say to any thinking person who seriously questions the meaning and purpose of life in a universe that has little o...

From my student days, I realized that Exodus was one of the most important (and perhaps most neglected) books in the Bible. After all, its message was at the heart of Christ’s redeeming work...

The book of Ezra, tucked away in the Old Testament, is often overlooked, yet it is remarkable for its relevance to the modern world. Ezra t...

Genesis is the book of beginnings. But it is also a book about God. 'In the beginning God' is the opening freeze-frame of the Bible. If ...

Why do bad things happen to good people? Why me? Can suffering serve any good purpose? These are real questions that many wrestle with today—and that Job wrestled with thousands of years ago...

Think Jonah, think whale. Or should we? Actually no. The whale, or great fish, merely appears among the list of supporting cast, along with...