Coming Untrue

“You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book?” — From Psalm 56 , a Miktam of David Sch...

“Is thrill-seeking wrong?” An old acquaintance is in hospital right now going on two months with little prospect of an easy recovery, th...

“For those who love God all things work together for good .” So wrote the apostle Paul, and so we believe. Of course, as with other freque...

Today’s instalment takes us to the eleventh of our twelve judges of Israel. We are getting there. At least eight tribes provided Israel ...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Theistic evolution is a concept that has become inc...

People: you just can’t count on them. That’s one of the things you can count on about human nature. We don’t have what it takes to see ...

An anecdote only: I won’t try to turn it into a thesis since it’s merely an observation. The habit of using the Law of Moses as a way of...

“If it is not he, who then is it? ” Good question, Job. If it is not God who gives the earth into the hand of the wicked … if it is not ...

“Why do people struggle with lack of faith?” On its own, the word “faith” is content-free. There is no such thing as generic faith. To t...

The subject of faith has been on my mind this week, and we’ll revisit it tomorrow in our usual Monday “Anonymous Asks” post. Faith does no...

Joseph had two sons during his glory years in Egypt, Ephraim and Manasseh. When his father Jacob was old and full of years, he blessed the...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. In Matthew 16, upon Peter’s confession, “You are t...

I hear a lot of people talk about their love for the gospel. But then I also hear a lot of talk about how people “love” ice cream, their c...

Six years ago, a new Gillette commercial indicting all men for the sins of some prompted this discussion of biblical masculinity between ...

The words “mercy” and “grace” appear hundreds of times in scripture. We use them in the vast majority of our public prayers. They are amon...

“Why did Jesus weep at the grave of Lazarus?” This week has been hard. An unsaved friend of over 30 years is on his way out of this worl...

Matt Littlefield is posting about the rapture on his Substack account, and I couldn’t let that slip by without a little light commentary....

I find it interesting that the scriptures rarely spend much time describing the conflicts in which Israel engaged (Jericho and Ai being ex...

In which our regular writers toss around subjects a little more volatile than usual. Evolutionary biologist Colin Wright , who believes...

When I was young, back in the 1970s, disaster movies were in vogue. Perhaps the most memorable was Jaws (1975), but before that were su...