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Many people read the Bible as a manual for self-improvement. They open the pages to find rules or steps to make themselves better people. They look into the text to find themselves. But you cannot fin...
In 1535, Miles Coverdale printed the first complete English Bible. In his preface he gave readers one rule for reading it: "It shall greatly help thee to understand Scripture if thou mark not only wha...
We live in an age of information overload. We listen to sermons and read devotionals every week. Yet we often struggle to remember what we learned. Most of what we hear slips away within days. Hearing...
A man tells you an angel appeared to him. He says the angel gave him the keys to overcoming death in these last days. Should you believe him? No. Not because angels are unreal. They are real. But God...
We often treat the Bible as a collection of general ideas. We think God inspired the concepts but left the details to human writers. However, the writers of the Bible did not view Scripture this way....
Your brain will not stop. You lie down at night and a crowd of thoughts shouts over each other. You replay conversations. You rehearse disasters. You solve problems that do not yet exist. And the hard...
An ancient city lived or died at its gates. Guards stood there. Merchants came and went through them, and an attacking army aimed for them first. Whatever passed through the gates ruled the streets in...
You can open the Bible and accumulate a mountain of information without ever encountering the Author. You can graduate from seminary with a full head and an empty heart. Paul says that "knowledge puff...
Jeremiah's sentence has a second half that people often miss. "Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word was to me the joy and rejoicing of my heart; For I am called by Your name, O LORD Go...
There is a difference between knowing what the Bible says and knowing who the Bible is talking to. Early in His ministry, Jesus sent His disciples out with a specific instruction: "Do not go into the...
Jeremiah lived under pressure. His nation was collapsing. His friends had turned on him. In the middle of that, he tells us what kept him upright. "Your words were found, and I ate them, And Your word...
In the Old Testament, the enemies of Israel waited for the harvest. When the crops grew, the Midianites swept down and stole the food. Gideon had to thresh wheat in a winepress at night just to hide i...
A physically hungry person often becomes angry. We understand this physical reality. Yet, we fail to recognize spiritual hunger. Many people struggle with chronic anger and anxiety simply because they...
A lack of hope affects the physical body and the mind. When you lose hope, you wake up tired. You feel a sense of despondency. You look at your work and your family, and you see only bleakness. This s...
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...
In the Old Testament, God gave a unique command for any king who ascended the throne. He didn't ask the king to build a bigger army or a taller palace first. He asked him to pick up a pen. "Also it sh...
Men do not speak life naturally. We casually use the vocabulary of the grave to describe our appetite. A man says, "I am dying for a plate of chicken rice." A student makes an error and says, "I am de...
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. Forty years earlier, Jesus stood on a mountain and declar...
Look closely at the image above. Your eyes tell you the lines are sloping, sinking on one end and rising on the other. Your brain feels convinced that the structure is slanted. But if you were to plac...
Social media promises to connect the world and make it smaller. The actual result is a documented rise in severe depression. Paul writes to Timothy that the last days will bring people who are lovers...
