You want to think of the workplace as a level playing field. But this is not always...
This year, I sat on the grand jury in my small hometown. Once a month for six months, we convened to review...
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In the ancient world, there was no separation of powers. The king was the executive, legislative, and judicial authority. Thus Scripture will often speak of God not only ruling from his throne, but...
In Isaiah 51:17, as in many verses of the Old Testament, drinking the cup is a symbol of receiving God’s judgment. Jerusalem drank “the cup of the LORD’s fury” when the Babylonians invaded,...
Jesus used a familiar agricultural reality to illustrate the difficulty of distinguishing between genuine and false disciples.
Adam's and Eve’s decisions stretch all the way to the modern workplace.
God began the first step—deliverance—by sending Moses and Aaron to tell Pharaoh “to let the Israelites go out of his land” (Exod...
In Numbers 12, Moses’ brother and sister, Aaron and Miriam, try to launch a revolt against his authority. They appear to have...
Another challenge to Moses’ authority arises in Numbers 13 and 14. The Lord tells Moses to send spies into the land of...
David also suffers another failure that, to us in the 21st century, may seem strange. He takes...
Regrettably, Job’s friends are not able to endure the mystery of his suffering, so they jump to conclusions about its source. The...
Sometimes the godly have a skewed perspective on how God governs, and this causes them needless anxiety. They think that the righteous...
Psalm 73 depicts a four-fold journey of temptation and faithfulness, playing it out in the psalmist's work.[1] In the first stage he...
Despite the attention to personal judgment we have seen in Psalm 73, in most of Book 3, it is the nation of...
The proverbs do not stop with commending generosity but go further to claim that caring for the poor is a matter of...
There follows an epilogue about, rather than by, the Teacher. It praises his wisdom and repeats his admonition to fear God. It...
A recurring charge throughout the book of Isaiah is that the leaders were unfaithful to God’s covenant because they pursued wealth and...
If the exiled Jews in Babylon missed the positive example in chapter 18, Ezekiel 22 gives them an explicit picture of where...
For an explanation of the themes in and structure of the Book of Daniel, see the section "The Big Picture in the...
Nahum’s chief contribution is to make it clear that the political and economic disaster is God’s punishment...
One of the widespread misunderstandings of Hebrews is that it pits the heavenly (uncreated) world against the earthly (created) one, that it...
Does our earthly work matter to God? Darrell Cosden has given a resounding “yes” to that question. Central to his argument is...
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