The Way of Cain

The Way of Cain

Cain’s story isn’t an obscure one (Genesis 4:1-15). You’re probably already pretty familiar with it, but let’s do a real quick recap and highlight some important verses along the way: Adam and Eve have two kids—Cain the firstborn and his younger brother Abel. Cain is...
Rending the Heart

Rending the Heart

Everybody thinks they know how to fix it. Just get enough of their guys making the decisions, enough of their rules being enforced, and things would be different. But it doesn’t work like that. It’ll never work like that. There is a sickness here that no...
Cain, Balaam, and Korah

Cain, Balaam, and Korah

I want to take a look at a single verse in the book of Jude. But first, we need to set the scene with some context. We don’t go to the book of Jude very often. In the original Greek, it’s only 461 words long, making it the fifth shortest book of the Bible,...
Growth Happens in the Secret Places

Growth Happens in the Secret Places

We forget that, sometimes. It’s easy to think of growth as visible, obvious, easy to point to and say, “There it is.” But it’s not. We see the fruits of growth in others. The byproducts. We don’t see the actual growth, because...