When David was still a shepherd boy, nobody in his family thought of him as leadership material. Jesse lined up...

Acts 15 opens with a fight. Some teachers arrived in Antioch insisting that Gentile believers had to be circumcised to...

Antioch was not a promising place to start a church. It was the third-largest city in the Roman Empire, famous...

A king once forgave a servant a debt so large it could never be repaid — ten thousand talents, roughly...

Three scenes, three very different pictures. In the first, a crowd of pilgrims in Jerusalem hears uneducated fishermen declaring “the...

The promise was made to a man with no land, no son, and no army. God told Abram to leave...

Genesis 9:20–27 is one of the shortest and most argued-over passages in the Bible. In eight verses, Noah plants a...

“The earth was filled with violence.” That is the Bible’s diagnosis of the world before the flood, in one sentence:...

The indictment was read before the final plague: “Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am...

God heard the crying first. Before the plagues, before Moses, before the burning bush, there was a sound: “The people...