Coming Untrue

“Take these things away; do not make my Father’s house a house of trade .” Jesus had nothing against pigeons; he made them after all, a...

“Do guardian angels exist?” How many angels are there? We can’t be sure, but there are indications in the Bible that number is stratosph...

Disclaimer time: our loving Father is not indifferent to the details of his children’s lives. He cares about our strained relationships, o...

Two sentence recap: The northern kingdom of Israel went into Assyrian captivity in three stages, the final one occurring with the fall of ...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. We’ve written here on many occasions about current...

“You can’t make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear”, as the famous adage goes. Your raw materials define what is possible with them. The sa...

“So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, ‘Up! Get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destro...

My college painting teacher had a name for improbable color choices or brushstroke combinations that gave a pleasing and unexpectedly-matu...

“Did Noah’s sons represent races?” We are often told diversity is our strength. Yet many of the very same people who chide us to accommo...

“Be infants in evil ...” “We are not ignorant of [Satan’s] designs.” In the first instance, Paul appears to be suggesting that Chris...

Jonah is a historical account that includes a mere eight words of actual prophecy (five in Hebrew), while Amos is a series of prophecies t...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. The Independent reports that Belgium’s Walloon re...

Well, the COVID crisis has sure taught us all some lessons, provided we’re conscious enough to think them over. And the purpose of this po...

“So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him .” Lot wasn’t Abram. The Lord didn’t speak to Lot directly as he had spo...

“When Lamech had lived 182 years, he fathered a son and called his name Noah, saying, ‘Out of the ground that the Lord has cursed, this on...

“Is the United States a Christian nation?” I have commented before that the word “Christian” makes a poor adjective. It doesn’t tell you...

A few years ago over lunch, a friend pointed out to me that the holy kiss is not merely a passing reference to an ancient custom in the Bi...

Time for a one-paragraph summary of our 59 posts in this series to date. Ready? Go! The prophet Jonah preached to the Assyrians in Ninev...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. The current state of our evangelical Christian chu...

I had a conversation with one of my brothers in Christ recently that left me a bit shaken and concerned, I must confess. It was outside ...