I remember the first time I read 1 Kings 22. I was sitting in my dorm room nodding off to the rhythm of a Blink 182 song while slowly drugging through my Old Testament reading assignment. However, just before I set sail to the land of peaceful cotton candy dreams, my half-conscious brain processed these verses. And just like that, I was awake again.
Over the last ten years or so, Christianity has seen several great debaters argue emphatically about the validity and reliability of the Biblical text. Noah’s flood, in particular, has been a bit of a pet subject often referenced in these debates. In recent years, arguments between PHDs over the idea of a global flood have…
The serenity prayer is one of the most well-known and widely recited modern prayers in the world today. For the last 100 years, the serenity prayer has been a source of comfort for people struggling with life’s challenges.
At a fundamental level, sin is disobeying God. However, the concept also provides us with many insights into humanity and the nature of God that are often overlooked.
“In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth"
TULIP is an acronym representing the concepts of Total depravity, Unconditional election, Limited atonement, Irresistible grace, and Preservation of the saints. These doctrines are known as the five points of Calvinism.
Recently an archaeological team from The Israel Antiquities Authority discovered evidence in Jerusalem of a Biblical earthquake mentioned in Amos.