The Roman Empire is the air the New Testament breathes. It is there in the first sentence of the Christmas...

Of all the empires that touched the biblical world, the Parthian Empire is the one most readers have never heard...

Alexander the Great conquered the known world before his thirty-third birthday and was dead before his thirty-third year ended. No...

Philippi was the first place in Europe where the gospel was preached, and it began with a prayer meeting by...

Miletus appears in the Bible mainly as the setting for a goodbye. Paul was hurrying toward Jerusalem, and rather than...

Paul reached Malta by accident. He had not planned to visit the island, had not booked passage there, and had...

Damascus is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth, and its story in the Bible spans almost the...

Ephesus was the city where the early church learned what it meant to hold the truth and lose the heart....

Every apostle had a hometown, but only Paul’s hometown is named with such pride in Scripture. “I am a Jew,...

Sidon enters the Bible in the book of Genesis and does not leave it until the book of Revelation. It...