It is the worst verse in the Bible, and the best verse in the Bible, standing side by side. The...

God said it twice, a thousand years apart, and the two sayings frame the whole man. First to Samuel, choosing...

Every story is shaped by its first pages, and the Bible’s first pages shape everything after them. The Book of...

The books of Kings read like a ledger — and that is exactly what they are. Reign by reign, the...

The Bible’s teaching about Satan is often mishandled in two opposite directions, and both are dangerous. Some Christians obsess over...

They show up on the first pages of Mark’s Gospel and never really leave. A man with an impure spirit...

Jesus told a story about a farmer, and half His audience never understood it. He told a story about a...

Here is an honest starting point: the English word “turquoise” does not appear in most Bible translations. Open a King...

Come and walk the foundations. That is, in effect, what Revelation 21:19-20 invites: a slow circuit around the wall of...

Of all the objects in Israel’s worship, the breastplate of the high priest may be the most personal. The ark...