Coming Untrue

“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 s...

Some spiritual experiences are useful to share. Others, I find, I am better off keeping to myself, not because they are trivial but becaus...

Don’t laugh at me, long time Bible readers. I only just noticed for the first time that in the days when Solomon had his first vision of G...

“Does God punish us when we sin?” Bad stuff happens when people sin. That’s no surprise to any of us. It started in the Garden of Eden a...

I have written a couple of times before about the “ labels ” the writers of the Old Testament used for the cities, towns, nations and peop...

The one-sided battle between Israel and Midian and its allies was winding down, moving into what we might call the cleanup stage. The writ...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Kevin Miller is an Executive VP at Christianity To...

Everybody likes gifts, they say. Still, some are better than others. A funny story: My in-laws were on their way to a wedding. Along th...

“By faith Moses, when he was born, was hidden for three months by his parents, because they saw that the child was beautiful, and they wer...

Those of us who read the word of God day by day over a period of years have all probably experienced more or less the same thing: each tri...

“Did Jesus go to hell?” If the relative likelihood of any interpretation of scripture being true has any correlation with its popularity...

Over at Stand to Reason , Jonathan Noyes handles the question “ How did Satan sin in heaven if you can’t sin in heaven? ” along with its w...

When the Lord calls a man to lead his people, these leaders do not generally ask those they lead to do things they are unwilling to do the...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Scott Mannion believes in the value of fellowship: ...

“For when you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness . Therefore what benefit were you then deriving from the thing...

Better known by his stage name, Gordon Sumner played and sang for a decade in a hugely successful eighties band, and followed that with an...

“To dwell only in the world of objective analysis is to chill your own soul.” So says David de Bruyn in a post entitled “ On Adoring Or An...

“I have committed _____. Will God ever forgive me?” I think I can safely say yes. As individual acts go, there is absolutely nothing you...

I am back in 1 Chronicles these days, working my way through passages that once inspired a post entitled “ Does God Need An Editor? ” (Spo...

The Hebrew word šāḥâ [literally, “bow down”; figuratively, “worship”] appears a grand total of four times in the book of Judges. That’s n...