Isaiah 26:19

Hello World, On Sunday, Rickey Smiley, a popular comedian and host of The Rickey Smiley Morning Show, announced the death of his oldest son, 32-year-old Brandon Smiley, who was also a comedian. Rickey brings so much joy to so many people so it is even more heartbreaking that he and his family have to grapple […]…

What’s permanent? At best, I have a couple of decades left to understand what Jesus meant by the kingdom of God. Life is brief. What’s beyond? Nothing, according to some. It’s over when we die. Tha……

Christianity claims there is only one path to God, and Christians believe this path is Jesus Himself. Is it a contradiction to say that Jesus is the only way to God, and also say that Abraham, Moses and David were saved before Jesus even came? Recently I received an email...…

The “bucket list” mentality, that this life is our only chance to ever enjoy adventure and fun, is profoundly unbiblical.…

Like you, I want to understand Scripture better, so we can live it well. It matters, because we’re living in God’s story. One way to learn is to watch how Scripture handles Scripture (i.e. intertextuality informs hermeneutics). For example, in Matthew 22:31 Jesus quotes this text to convince his opponents...…

(Photo: Unsplash) Death feels so final. God did not intervene to prevent Jesus’ death. As I read Matthew, I feel the need time to absorb the enormity of this tragedy, to process the loss, to grieve at the injustice, to feel the familiar futility of a world where God’s anointed...…

Job 19:25-27; God’s Word teaches: That the Resurrection of the dead is taught in the Bible as clearly as the immortality of the soul. Every individual who has ever lived will be resurrected, some t……