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We spend so much of our lives trying to grow. We worry about our stature, our wisdom, and our future. We try to spin our own security and weave our own reputation. But Jesus points us to a different w...
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We spend so much of our lives trying to grow. We worry about our stature, our wisdom, and our future. We try to spin our own security and weave our own reputation. But Jesus points us to a different w...
Blood has a voice. In the first murder in history, Cain killed Abel. It was a religious murder-one brother trying to approach God through performance (his own crops) killing the brother who approached...
Seventy-four times, the Bible inserts a word that most readers skip. It sits at the end of a verse, often in parentheses, and most people treat it like a footnote. But what if that small word is the m...
Jesus stated that the period before His return would mirror the conditions during the life of Noah. During that era, the Bible records that fallen angels took human form and cohabited with women. Thes...
Truth without love destroys. Love without truth deceives. Jesus mastered the art of holding both. Consider His interaction with the Samaritan woman at the well. She was an outcast, living in a complex...
Geological evidence and ancient records support the biblical account of a universal flood. Geologists have documented marine life remains, such as skeletons, embedded in the rock of the high Himalayas...
Humanity committed high treason by trusting Satan instead of God. This single action introduced physical aging, sickness, and death into a previously flawless world. We typically identify ourselves by...
There is a period in history that completely disrupts our understanding of judgment. It is the timeline between Egypt and Sinai. God brought the children of Israel out of slavery. They crossed the Red...
Most of us skip the genealogies in the Bible. We see a long list of ancient names and think of them as a "black hole" of information-redundant and dry. But in the Kingdom, there is no such thing as a...
In the days of King David, a strange anomaly existed in Israel. There were two tabernacles standing at the same time, just six miles apart. At Gibeon stood the Tabernacle of Moses. It was impressive....
There is a myth that to be a leader, you must be loud. We confuse aggression with strength and silence with weakness. We see the heroes in movies breaking things to save the day, and we think that is...
In AD 70, the Roman General Titus commanded his army to spare the great temple in Jerusalem. He possessed the military power of a vast empire. However, forty years earlier, Jesus stood on a mountain a...
There is a word in the Hebrew Bible that no single English word can translate. Translators have tried "mercy," "lovingkindness," "steadfast love," "loyalty," and "faithfulness." Every attempt captures...
Agur, the writer of Proverbs 30, was a wise man. Yet he admitted there were four things that were too wonderful for him to comprehend. "There are three things which are too wonderful for me, Yes, four...
There is a struggle for your identity, and it often happens right at the moment of your birthing. In the book of Genesis, as Rachel was dying in childbirth, she looked at her newborn son through the l...
It is one of the strangest contradictions in the Bible. In one moment, Elijah stands on Mount Carmel, calls down fire from heaven, and defeats an entire nation's false prophets. He is fearless. He dec...