Honoring your parents is a matter of life and death... at least it was for Mulan. Is it the same case for us today? Why does the fifth commandment really matter?

What does it mean to be holy? God calls us to be holy because he is holy. That command seems impossible.... because it is... and it isn't. You may not realize it, but, in a way, you declare things holy all the time. 

Check your privilege. That's what someone said to Esther and her heart was changed. God gives us privilege and it is always attached to God-given purpose. In order for us to use our privilege for God, we have to be willing to ...

It doesn't matter how much we know about God's forgiveness, unless we have had a personal experience with it. The story of Jonah and the Ninevites reveals to us what it means to encounter God's forgiveness personally versus encountering God's f...

True repentance is something that is detestable to most people today. Yet, Jesus commands that if we are to have eternal life through the Gospel, then true repentance must be the first step on that path. The story of how David responds...

When you read the Bible, it seems like God can't get enough of the "underdog" storyline. Over and over again, the underdog plot resurfaces. And it becomes most famous in the story of David and Goliath. But all these underdog stories po...

King Saul was a royal failure. With his very first act as king, he proved to be someone who didn't truly honor God. And the consequences were drastic. If he had only waited a few hours longer, things might have been much different. 

The story of the Battle of Jericho is not just something that happened thousands of years ago. It is also the guaranteed future for all Christians. The victory that God wins for the Israelites at Jericho is just a shadow of the far greater vict...

12 spies were sent into the promised land. They all faced the same temptations, but only 2 acted in a way that pleased God.  They all faced the same cost, but only 2 esteemed God as more valuable. One thing is for certain: our...

God's plan from the beginning has been that He will make His final home with humanity. But, of course, mankind has messed things up so that we are unfit for God's presence. In order for God to dwell with us, things have to change. It's a bit li...

We live in a society of human beings. Ever wondered what it would be like to live in God's society? Here's a hint... it's a whole lot different than the society we live in. And because of that, it's governed by a different set of laws. 

When the Israelites were delivered from slavery in Egypt, they were led into their destiny. The way that the Israelites lived out their calling teaches us how we ought to live out our specific calling as Christians. 

God gave Moses three miracles to perform for the people of Israel: a staff turning into a snake and back into a staff, his hand becoming diseased and then whole again, and the Nile water turning into blood. These are not just random miracles, b...

Ever wonder if fire-bending is possible?What about fire-bending the wrath of God?

It's the story of the two soundest sleepers in the whole Bible - Jonah and Jesus. A lot that happens in Jonah's life is a symbol for what would happen in the life of Christ. But there is one major difference. And that difference is...

Everyone is born a slave to sin. Nobody is born a Christian. Anyone who is now a Christian has been radically transformed into one by God. Every Christian has a "before and after" story. What's your "before a...

Joseph had one crazy life. There are few stories in all of history that can compete with the drama of Joseph's life. But his story is not just entertaining. It is also incredibly insightful as to the reality of God in the face of suffering.&nbs...

All our lives we do our best to earn a blessing for ourselves. And the “American dream” tells us that we need to work our way to the top and prove to everyone that we’ve earned our right to be there. But that is foolishness. No matter how hard ...

John 3:16 is a verse that almost every Christian could quote by heart. But there is another verse in the Old Testament that says almost the same thing, but from a different perspective. The question that both of these verses addresses is the is...

The story of Sodom and Gomorrah is told in a very unique way. We hear about the story from two different perspectives. But then, at the end, there is one sentence extra that is kind of like a post-credits scene. It leaves us anticipating what i...

The way God chose to bless the world through Abram is a picture of how God blesses the world today through Christ. God said that all who related rightly to Abram, He would bless. And now God says the same thing, except dealing with a greater pe...

Besides having a great name, Utnapishtim was the one man who survived the great flood according to the Babylonian flood myth. But what does that have to do with the Bible's account of Noah and the flood? If we compare the differences between th...

The story of Cain and Abel is incredibly similar to the story of Adam and Eve sinning in the Garden. But one of the major differences is that, instead of Satan speaking with mankind before the sin takes place, God has a conversation with mankin...

How does God respond to sin? When Adam and Eve disobeyed God, God's response tells us everything we need to know about how God responds to sin in our lives personally and also how He ultimately deals with sin for good. God responds...

What exactly is sin? Nowadays it seems that everyone has their own definition. The only way we can really know what sin is, is if we study sin's origin story... and that's exactly what we find in Genesis chapter 3. Sin is not deter...