The Living God has an uncanny way of turning inescapable defeat into glorious and unexpected victory. Let’s look at a few examples. The Israelites are desperately trapped at the Red Sea by the pursuing Egyptian army. The civilian Israelites are on foot, encumbered with their earthly possessions and their wives and children and essentially unarmed as...

Language allows us to attach simple words to very large or very complex things and ideas. We do this all the time with numbers. We throw around words like million, billion, trillion as if we really grasped the immensity of those ideas. If you took average diameter human hairs and laid them side by side, one...

 “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: I myself made a covenant with your fathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying, 14‘At the end of seven years each of you must set free the fellow Hebrew who has been sold to you and has...

King Josiah, who reigned over the kingdom of Judah from 648 to 609 B.C. was perhaps the most righteous king that the Israelites ever had. Taking the throne after the death of his father, Manasseh (without question the most wicked king the people of God ever had), Josiah totally cleansed Israel of all of the idols...

In one of Jesus’ parables he describes a servant responding to his master, just as some people respond to God: He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, so I was...

In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus says: “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 39But I say to you, Do not resist the one who is evil. But if anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to him the other also Matthew 5:38–39...

The human brain is the most magnificent computing machine ever conceived. But it is no surprise that this mere three pound mass of neurons is woefully unable to understand the God who created it as well as the cosmos and everything in it. We are simply not equipped to understand how holy and exalted the Living...

The ones along the path are those who have heard; then the devil comes and takes away the word from their hearts, so that they may not believe and be saved. . . .And others are the ones sown among thorns. They are those who hear the word, but the cares of the world and the...