Have you ever lost a wallet or a purse? Or far worse, perhaps you’ve had a moment when you turned around and realized your child had wandered off in a crowd. It’s an awful feeling to know someone or something is lost. Luke, the Bible’s only Gentile author, was gripped by the needs of lost […]
A business leader recently wrote a book about urgency, because, he said, most people are complacent and don’t realize it. If anything is going to happen for the better, he wrote, it must be tackled with urgency. That’s a good way to describe the Gospel of Mark. This book is short and to the point, an
Whenever Jesus passes by, lives are changed. Take, for example, the tax collector Matthew. One day he was sitting in his tax booth when Jesus walked by, looked him in the eye, and said, “Follow Me” (Matt 9:9). Just that quickly, Matthew “left all, rose up, and followed Him” (Lk 5:29). Matthew later wrote the
All of us benefit from good counseling, whether it’s marital counseling, financial counseling, or simply getting advice from a friend. But imagine sitting down and having a counseling session with God Himself? That’s the format of the book of Malachi. It’s a unique approach in Scripture, as Malachi shares the back-and-forth conversations God wanted to
Author Muriel Anderson credits four words with launching her career as a writer: Of course you can! “I was to have had a father,” she said, “who was good at shouting of course you can at just the right moments.” That was the message of Zechariah. According to the book of Ezra, the exiles returning