(If you’re looking for more Moby Dick answers, check out my post: “All Your Moby Dick Questions Answered!”) Stories of self-destruction abound. I recently told a biblical one in an eight-part sermon series on Samson earlier this year at Covenant Church. But tucked away in one brief little chapter in…
“You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.” (Psalm 65:8b) Recently on my sabbatical, I had the privilege of witnessing many amazing sunsets and several beautiful sunrises. Truly, to behold the rising and setting of the sun is a gift held out to…
This week IVP released the newest installment in the “Week in the Life” series with John Byron’s “A Week in the Life of a Slave.” Byron is Professor of New Testament at Ashland Theological Seminary and focused his doctoral research at the University of Durham on slavery metaphors in early…
“[The tongue] is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.” (James…
“The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working.” (James 5:16) If this is true, that the prayers of a righteous person have great power, I wonder why we dad’s don’t pray more frequently for our children? If you’re a Christian dad, you undoubtedly pray from…
“Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise. Without having any chief, officer, or ruler, she prepares her bread in summer and gathers her food in harvest.” (Proverbs 6:6-8) When our kids grow up and leave home, one of the things we want them to have…
