Volume 1

The Israelites stood on the shore of the Red Sea, terrified. Before them stretched a formidable expanse of water; behind them gathered one of the...

is to stretch. And the only way to stretch is to push yourself to the very limit of what you can handle…and then push some more. It's uncomfortable....

"Lord, Lord, open to us!" But the door remained shut. From the other side, a voice: "Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you." * * * To the...

Nobody wants to be the guy with one talent. One talent is scary. The guy with two talents, he can afford to lose a whole talent and still bounce...

In English, a double negative flips a sentence on its head. To say that something was "not without its challenges" is just a confusing way of...

Zero. The answer is zero. You can handle sin about as effectively as you can handle bullets in your vital organs—that is to say, not at all. Sin...

So are "hard" and "complicated." He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you But to do justly, To love mercy, And...

In Turkey, when the family of a prospective groom meets with the family of a prospective bride, the bride-to-be often prepares traditional Turkish...

Emptiness is a poor long-term solution. Nature won't stand for it. The air around you isn't empty, for the record. It's chock-full of molecules...

So I have this really ugly scar sitting on the knuckle of my left ring finger. Like most scars, I acquired it unintentionally. A few years ago, I...

The remarkable thing about the human race is our ability to botch things up even when the odds are undeniably in our favor. Our story began in the...

Are you tired of the continual presence of God in your life? Does the divine intervention of a loving, all-knowing Creator just get under your skin?...

Have you heard the story of Naaman the leper? He served as commander of the Syrian army in the time of the kings of Israel, and was prompted by one...

What do you see when you look at this giant swath of letters and numbers? 1. d4 d5 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. Bg5 Nbd7 5. e3 Bb4 6. cd5 ed5 7. Qb3 c5 8....

We make a lot of stupid decisions for a lot of different reasons. Some we make out of haste. Others are born of jealousy and greed. Sometimes we're...

David once implored God, "Make me hear joy and gladness, that the bones You have broken may rejoice" (Psalm 51:8). The idea of God breaking our...