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One of the great messages of the Old Testament is that God is in control, and He wants us to trust in Him. Control is an illusion that we tell ourselves that we have. Truthfully, I am in control of only one thing, myself. Even that is limited. Much of my body runs autonomically. I cannot turn off physical pain. My emotions are very hard to control. We are limited in the amount of control we have. Moreover, we often…

I don’t like Jonah. In a book with an evil king, pagan sailors and a giant, man-eating fish, he’s still, hands-down, the most unlikable character. He whines and runs from God — and then refuses to show the mercy to others that God had just shown him. My main problem with this little book is how it ends. The prophet sits on a hill, overlooking the city of Nineveh, angry that God isn’t raining down judgment on its people. He…

The Book of Romans, written around 56 – 58 AD during his 3rd missionary journey, is considered to be Paul’s “Magnum Opus.” It is the apostle’s greatest body of work. If Paul were an artist, Romans would be his masterpiece, because it is his most influential epistle in the Bible. Many of the beloved verses disciples of Christ have memorized over the years are from the book of Romans, such as Romans 8: 28 and Romans 12: 1-2. Let us…