Picture two oxen in a field, a heavy wooden beam across their necks, pulling a plow in step. That beam...

The dream clings to you after the alarm: dark water — and in it, an alligator: still, watching, armored, patient....

The church at Laodicea received the harshest letter of the seven in Revelation — and the most famous diagnosis in...

The New Testament has a word for the opposite of the distracted, reactive, foggy-headed life so many of us live....

“Gird up your loins.” “He girded his loins.” Modern readers trip over this phrase the way they’d trip over the...

Every December, billions of people celebrate a birthday the Bible never dates, with customs the Bible never commands, on a...

It is the first job description ever given to humanity, and it contains one of the Bible’s most misunderstood words:...

Let’s begin with honesty, because God is the God of truth and His people should be people of truth: the...

Some names are labels. Others are theology — compact doctrines you can speak in a single breath. Elizabeth is the...

It is one of the loveliest old words in the English Bible — mirth. It sounds like laughter in a...