In the last week of His life, Jesus received two kisses. The first came in the house of a Pharisee,...

Moses — who had watched a generation die in the wilderness — prayed a strange prayer: “Teach us to number...

Over the high priest’s heart, beneath the twelve engraved stones, lay the Bible’s most mysterious objects. God commanded Moses: “And...

Near the end of 2 Samuel, tucked between David’s last words and the census that brought judgment, sits one of...

The Christmas story contains a sentence that should not be there. After the magi, the star, and the baby in...

Picture the scene: the entire nation of Israel gathered in the valley between two mountains. Half the tribes stood on...

Paul gave the church the key to the whole subject in a single sentence: “For all the promises of God...

Elijah did everything he could to make the miracle harder. He rebuilt the altar with twelve stones, dug a trench...

“Bethlehem” means “house of bread.” And the book of Ruth opens with the bitter irony that there was “a famine...

The young king went up to Gibeon to sacrifice — a thousand burnt offerings, the chronicler notes, as if to...