Category Archives: Bible

Many years ago I received a Christmas card from a friend of mine. When I pulled it from its envelope and looked at the front, I saw a simple drawing of a Christmas tree and the surprising words, “Christmas is … Continue reading →

Years ago I heard a youth pastor, in the middle of something else he was talking about, comment, “the books of Chronicles don’t have anything interesting in them.” The man was an idiot. Obviously he had never actually read the … Continue reading →

Doing what God wants might be weird sometimes. During the year that the city of Ashdod fell to the Assyrians, God told the ancient Hebrew prophet Isaiah to do something, well…odd. He told him to take off the sackcloth he … Continue reading →

Jesus wants to make us free. We are free from condemnation, free from having to worry, free from our guilt. God has given us the righteousness of Jesus: “God has made him who had no sin to be sin for … Continue reading →

Jeremiah 42-43:7 relates a sad but common tale. After the Babylonians had conquered Jerusalem and established a governor in place of their king, some of the leaders of Judah who were still there approached Jeremiah and asked, “Please hear our … Continue reading →

Consider the story of Rahab in Joshua 2:1-21 and 6:25. According to the Bible, Rahab the harlot does what’s right, even though she broke the rules. God had rescued the Israelites from Egypt after afflicting the Egyptians with a series … Continue reading →

The Ten Commandments are well known in the sense that just about everyone has heard of them. But most of us would be hard pressed to rattle off all ten. Likely we’d hit a few, such as the ones against … Continue reading →

I wrote a novel a few years ago called The Wrong Side of Morning. The title describes the fact that in this day-to-day experience of existence we are living somewhere past midnight, but before the dawn. As Christians we look … Continue reading →