The most startling thing about the judgment in Matthew 25 is the surprise. When the King separates the sheep from...

Jesus had just finished describing the world’s most unlikely heroes — the poor in spirit, the mourners, the meek, the...

Of the roughly forty parables Jesus told, only one comes with Jesus’ own verse-by-verse commentary — and He told it...

He was the kind of young man any parent would be proud of. Morally upright since his youth, successful enough...

It begins not with a sheep but with a dinner party. Tax collectors and “sinners” — the people respectable religion...

“Teacher,” the expert in the law asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” It sounded like a sincere...

Of all Jesus’ parables, this is the one that feels least like a parable. It has named characters — Lazarus,...

Follow the word “light” through the Bible and you trace the whole story of redemption in a single beam. It...

Open the book of Proverbs looking for a single verdict on wealth and you will come away confused — which...

Most people open Proverbs expecting a jar of fortune cookies — disconnected one-liners to shake out at random. Read the...