In Matthew chapter 25, Jesus is teaching about the kingdom of God. He tells two parables. The first is about the idea that we have to keep watch, because we don’t know the day or the hour of Jesus’ return. The second parable paints…
In Luke chapter 14, Jesus tells a story about a banquet:“A man prepared a great feast and sent out many invitations. When the banquet was ready, he sent his servant to tell the guests, ‘Come, the banquet is ready.’ But they all began making…
The last chapters in the book of Acts are interesting. In fact, Paul, the one who traveled the known world preaching the Gospel to Jews and Gentiles, who saw countless miracles, and who wrote much of the New Testament, spends much of the end…
It probably comes as no surprise that ancient societies had a different set of values than what we have grown accustomed to here in 21st century America. That’s an important thing to consider when we read the Bible. The Bible was written at a…
We all have a set of core beliefs residing in our hearts—things we believe about ourselves. We live according to these beliefs even if we aren’t conscious of it. These beliefs have accumulated over the course of our lives. There are experiences we’ve had,…
