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I am not asking you if you know someone who is a grump. I am not asking you if there is someone in your family or with whom you work who is a grumpy person. I am asking you, dear reader, a personal question: Are you a grump? Perhaps you will not feel comfortable answering […]

King Nebuchadnezzar of the mighty Babylonian Empire conquered Judah (often called “the Southern Kingdom”) and carried a number of Jews into captivity in Babylon. Before the final fall of Jerusalem and Judah in B.C. 586, Jeremiah wrote a letter to the Jews who already had been taken forcefully to Babylon. That letter is recorded in […]

When we try to have a conversation with someone about the Bible or even directly ask someone to engage in a one-on-one Bible study with us, on occasion we encounter this response: “Thanks, but I’m good.” When one says “I’m good,” he is not claiming to be a person of good character. Rather, the idea […]

Do those words sound familiar? Jesus spoke them to a certain lawyer who was trying to test Him. That lawyer had a good grasp of what mattered in life according to the law of Moses, as he recognized the need to love God and his neighbor (Luke 10:27). What the fellow appeared to lack, though, […]

In order to be servants of God, you and I need to know what He is like, we need to learn His will for our lives, and we need to have a heart that is willing to submit to His desire . . . that is what servants do. Some Bible students have found it […]

Israel’s crossing of the Red Sea is noted multiple times in the Bible, with the main section of information about that event found in Exodus chapter fourteen. There are some great lessons to learn from that unforgettable incident. At the Red Sea, we see a fearful people. The children of Israel had been slaves in […]

To distinguish her from other Bible characters with the same name, she is called “Mary the mother of Jesus” (Acts 1:14). Mary was the one about whom the prophet Isaiah spoke when he proclaimed that a virgin would conceive and give birth to a male child by the name of Immanuel (Isaiah 7:14). Mary was […]