What is a true martyr? Over the past days and weeks, several stories of assisinations in the USA have saturated the news. The various...

At first glance, Ecclesiastes may read like a book of complaints. I see it more as a book of confessions, both of Solomon's vanity and...

For those of us who ever struggle with finances or deficit of any kinds (and even for those who don't), here are three biblical...

Many of us are familiar with the names David and Goliath, and we have heard the stories of 1 Samuel 17, wherein the boy David, who has...

The year is approximately 1400 BCE. A large tribe of wanderers, now nearing as many as twomillion people, is finally about to cross into...

Jesus' prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane is messy, in every possible way. Never in any other point in his recorded life does Christ's...