Section by section, we’ve moved this Lent and into Easter week through the Bible. I’ve pointed out the parallels, the echoes between the Hebrew scriptures and the Greek testament, often called the Old ...

Statue of Elijah on Mt Carmel. (Credit: Micah Camper from Unsplash.) Listen While every era of salvation history has its own unique focus and expression of prayer, none of the other epochs compare ...

Many of the Old Testament prophets must have seemed odd indeed. Jeremiah, by his own admission, had a tremor “like a drunken man” (Jeremiah 23: 9), and Isaiah “walked naked and barefoot three years” ...

"But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah, who are too little to be among the clans of Judah, from you shall come forth for me one who is to be ruler of Israel, whose coming forth is from of old, of ancient ...

In a period of four centuries, ancient Israel produced a unique succession of spokesmen for God—the Hebrew prophets. These inspired preachers profoundly influenced the shape of Judaism and ...