The Bible refuses to give a simple answer about beauty — and that refusal is the answer. Scripture will not...

David had been a shepherd, a fugitive, a warrior, and a king. He had asked God for many things across...

It usually arrives at night. The diagnosis, the pink slip, the broken relationship, the child in trouble — and underneath...

Picture a house church in Ephesus, late in the first century. The believers have gathered — merchants, slaves, widows, a...

Few verses in the Bible have traveled a stranger road than Ezekiel 4:9. In its original setting, it is part...

The word hides in plain sight every Sunday. When churches celebrate the Lord’s Supper, many call it the Eucharist —...

Joseph was seventeen when he dreamed that his brothers’ sheaves bowed down to his sheaf — and his life was...

The first time Isaiah saw the Lord, the vision nearly undid him. There was no gentle glow, no comforting image...

It started with a boy’s lunch. A crowd of thousands had followed Jesus to a remote hillside, the day was...

It was past midnight in a Philippian jail, and the jailer was about to kill himself. An earthquake had shaken...