Women of the Bible: Lot’s Wife

Many times, when people are confronted with their need for repentance, they hesitate to leave behind the lives they’ve known. They may live amid wickedness, tolerating or even practicing it. 

They might have acclimated to their environments to the point that they became products of it. 

Let’s face it: Sin entices. It satisfies—if only our flesh, if only for a moment. 

Such was the (more…)

The Patience of . . . Noah?

And Noah did all that the Lord commanded him. Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came on the earth—Genesis 7:5-6

When we think about a biblical role model for patience, our minds naturally go to Job, the character who inspired the saying “the patience of Job.” Few of us would have remained so steadfast in the face of so much loss. (more…)

Dyslexic Believers: Exalting Dog Above All Else

Then God said, “Let us make man in Our image, after Our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” – Genesis 1:26

Birds, fish, tadpoles, a hamster, a guinea pig, a (more…)