The Error of Balaam

The Error of Balaam

Balaam’s story unfolds while Israel is making its way toward the border of the Promised Land. The nations around them are terrified. This ragtag band of escaped slaves are growing in number and in strength, they’ve just chewed through the armies of the kings of the...
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,...