Luke, who wrote the Gospel of Luke, but also gave us The Book of Acts, was a great documentarian who captured for us important details in...

H.L. Mencken, the supposed atheist, arguably anti-Christian, certainly controversial, but often brilliant early 20th century American...

In  John 8:31-59, Jesus provoked some palpable tension in the midst of Jewish religious leaders when he shed light on some uncomfortable...

At Pentecost, God reversed the curse placed on humanity at Babel. Because of hubris and sin at Babel, God splintered humanity into...

The human race had three significant rebellions against God in the book of Genesis.  First, they rebelled in the Garden of Eden when they...

A dizzying number of Old Testament prophecies – maybe as many as 300 or more – fulfill themselves in the person of Jesus Christ.  That...

Power is the ability to do work, or to effect a cause, or to make something happen.  When there is no power there is no work, no...

Jesus uses an obvious truth in Matthew 5:14-16 to teach us a powerful lesson about our potential as image bearers of God.  He points out...

When I decided to go on a mission trip to the Philippines in January of 2014, I envisioned myself preaching to crowds of people, and...

Integrity is a word that means to be whole, undivided or complete. Boats are an excellent illustration of that concept. For instance,...

Paul effectively uses racing imagery in many of his writings to motivate us toward divine goals. For instance, when writing to the church...

The bible speaks highly of faithfulness. The concept is either directly mentioned, or indirectly described everywhere throughout the...

The word comfort serves as both a verb and a noun. As a verb, it means to soothe someone in their time of pain or distress. To comfort...

We don’t have a gospel record of Jesus saying it, but Paul tells us in Acts 20:33-35 that the Lord said, “it is more blessed to give than...

In the English language, we often consider the verbs “to seek” and “to look for” to be synonyms.  That is to say that we consider them to...

Biblical steadfastness is often poorly illustrated as a kind of brute force strength – like an immovable boulder in a strong rushing...

One of the most famous quotes of Benjamin Franklin is that if you fail to plan, then you are planning to fail. The wisdom captured by the...

Every single day demands more decisions than you can count. Almost all of those decisions are simple and require no significant effort on...

We think far too much about death as a termination of life. But that is really only true of biology. The bible tells us that life in some...

John’s gospel provides for us one of the most ironic prophecies of the bible.  In John 11:45-53 Jesus had just raised Lazarus from the...