Living in this broken world, people know defeat all too well. Everyone has experienced a relationship where someone let them down, or a situation that didn’t work out the way they hoped. These moments of disappointment or frustration reveal the tragic fact that this...

Psalm 139:13-16 New International Version 13 For you created my inmost being;     you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;     your works are wonderful,     I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden...

Appearances can be deceiving. Many of us have spent a lifetime creating the mask that we wear out in public. We want people to respond to us in a certain way based on the mask we wear. For example, if we project a loving mother to the world, we hope to be treated...

Nebuchadnezzar was the king of Babylon who destroyed Jerusalem in 586 BC. God used him as an instrument of judgment upon Judah for their sins. The book of Daniel recounts events in Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar. Select exiles from Jerusalem of noble birth and good...

Abraham and Lot had reached an impasse. Both had so many possessions that a conflict arose among their herders. There wasn’t enough space for all of them to remain in the same area. It would have been easy for both of these men to be overtaken with greed, and it would...