What do you think we get wrong about the book of Esther? For most of my life, I heard two themes around the book of Esther that I now believe to be totally off-base. The first is that Esther is a story about a virtuous Jewish girl who won the […]
One might ask, if what we believe about God determines our ultimate destiny, shouldn’t the evidence [for God’s existence] be more obvious and available? If knowing God is so important, why does he remain so hidden? Space doesn’t permit us to explore all the answers to these questions here, but […]
As we progress in the Christian life, we find that it is a never-ending process. We go back, breaking some destructive power of the past. Then later, on a deeper level, God has us return to the same issue on a more profound level. I have experienced four conversions so […]
Jesus’ preaching about the kingdom, and his reputation as a miracle worker, raise the critical question of how he understood his identity and mission. While our limited sources do not allow us to build a psychological profile of Jesus, the implicit significance of Jesus’ words and deeds can tell us […]
