If worship can be defined as that which we offer to a holy and perfect God as an expression of his worthiness or value to us, then it is...

The difficulty of worship for many Christians is squarely rooted in a terrible misunderstanding of that word. Consider how we often...

There are many ways to categorize biblical fasts, but no matter how you divide them up, label them, or place them into boxes, they really...

In ancient times, Nineveh was the capital city of the Assyrian empire. It was known for great wealth, but it was also known for cruelty,...

Fasting appears frequently throughout the pages of the bible. Defining fasting in its basic sense is not difficult. When it is...

A man without self-control is like a city broken into and left without walls (Proverbs 25:28). In ancient times, cities were often...

How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news (Romans 10:15)? This is how Paul finalizes his famously urgent call for...

I am a man of three children. They are all grown now and run their own lives. But even though they are adults, they are still referred to...

Proverbs 16:9 is a famous bit of wisdom that is often interpreted in the most fatalistic, deterministic, or nihilistic way. This proverb...

Each Christmas I am reminded of a problem in our species. As a species, we doggedly pursue pleasure in every life domain, and often at...

It is impossible to separate your life from your identity. The two are so woven together that to change one necessarily changes the other....

It seems that a sparkling gem of insight gleams from every passage of Paul’s letter to his protege – the young pastor Titus. In one...

God gives grace to the humble, and he opposes the proud (Proverbs 3:34, 1 Peter 5:5). The truth of that concept lives throughout the...

Peter’s pen scratched out what appear to be some of the most frightening words in the bible. In 1 Peter 4:12-18, the apostle warns that...

Peter uses some very interesting grammatical constructions in 1 Peter 4:1-2. The first thing he does is point to Christ’s suffering and...

Peter tells us that we are called to suffer for doing good. He is unequivocal about it, and argues plainly that we should follow in the...

Although it may not seem evident upon first glance, Peter gives us two important themes in his first letter. First, he tells us that...

Peter pummels his readers with a string of common thematic punches in the first few chapters of his first letter. All of them are the...

Right after he commands us in 1 Peter 2:13-16 to be subject to every human authority knowing full well that some of those authorities...

Peter makes a difficult statement to the scattered Christians living in Asia Minor. Those believers were often living in areas that were...