When a large crowd came to Jesus, he spoke to them in a parable we now commonly call the Sower and the Seed that captures the four responses people have when hearing the Word of God: 1) they hear then the devil comes and immediately takes away the Word from their heart so ...
Tucked away in one of the least read chapters of Genesis, we find a list of Noah’s descendants according to where they settled. Scholars call Genesis 10 the table of nations, since it lists seventy individuals who founded cities, regions, nations, or even empires. This list ...
The Sermon on the Mount begins with Jesus setting forth the godly virtues his disciples should embody and practice in their everyday life. Humility, mourning, gentleness, desire for righteousness, mercifulness, purity of heart, peacemakers, and blessedness with joy when ...
Are you confident, assertive, and capable? Are you generally uncomfortable with working on a team? Are your heroes rugged
individualists who took life by the horns and bent the world to their will? Are you determined, decisive, and direct? If so, then you may just be a ...
Time Periods in the Bible: Why We Need the OT for the Epistles
Editor’s Note: For more information on this important topic, please see Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul by Richard Hays and Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament by Beale and Carson.
In the previous article, we saw that the Gospels are ...
Freeze the scene. The knife gleams in the blinding sun. Lifted high above his head, his hand firmly grips the handle, knuckles bulging. His eyes, open, are intensely focused on the object of his aim. Isaac bound, looks up in fear, knowing his father has made up his ...
