A scoffer is someone who behaves with arrogance, haughtiness, and pride. (Prov. 21:24). They are simple and hate knowledge (Prov. 1:22). They injure, abuse, and hate those who correct them (Prov. 9:7-...  Read More

IntroductionIn C.S. Lewis’s novel That Hideous Strength, Mark Studdock is a paradigm for what conversion looks like in a post-Christian society. Mark is a soft, pacifistic, non-confrontational person ...  Read More

IntroductionCharles Chauncy was the Grand Poo-Bah of the Old Light coalition that opposed the New Light evangelists George Whitefield, Gilbert Tenent, and James Davenport during the First Great Awaken...  Read More

In The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn described the problem of the Soviets sending stool pigeons into the prison. These Soviet plants spied on the inmates. Solzhenitsyn describes that a “se...  Read More

IntroductionAt Harvard College in the eighteenth century, hell was the first doctrine discarded. It was an offense to rationalism that a loving God sends people to hell. They didn’t pretend the Bible ...  Read More

The Sanhedrin had been crowned, anointed, and named the official power brokers of Israel. When the rogue rabbi from Nazareth showed up, they claimed the right to kill him, as much as a Scot has a righ...  Read More

IntroductionTrouble sleeping? There is danger in too little sleep (Prov. 3:24). We wish we could, like Jesus, remain “asleep on the cushion” in a boat tossed by the storm and battered by the waves (Mk...  Read More

Ephesians 5:4, “Let there be no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, which are out of place, but instead let there be thanksgiving.”IntroductionPaul’s command to not make crude jokes is found...  Read More

The StoryAbsalom, David’s third son, is a character painted in the vivid and tragic hues of Scripture. He is introduced as a man of striking appearance, a veritable Adonis born in Hebron to Maacah (2 ...  Read More

Heavenly Father, You are the God who made heaven and earth. You are the God of all help (Ps. 121:2) and all comfort (2 Cor. 1:3). You are the God who keeps, guards, and protects (Ps. 121:3, 4, 5, 7, 7...  Read More

The StoryBible readers are well-acquainted with the luminous figures of the Old Testament: the first Adam, the venerable Abraham, and the illustrious Patriarchs, not forgetting the liberating Moses, t...  Read More

1 Corinthians 7:2-5, “But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband. 3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, a...  Read More