Bible Verses About God’s Unfailing Love (For When You Feel Unlovable)
To be completely honest, for most of my life I really struggled to believe in God’s unfailing love for me. I was in several abusive relationships, and my home life wasn’t great. I had gone through a lot, and I just kind of landed on, “Oh, okay. I’m definitely God’s first mistake.” I didn’t feel […]
The Bible Names Three Types of Fools (Which Are You?)
Today we’re turning to the second character in the book of Proverbs: the fool. Same reminder as always, this isn’t a specific personality type. We all carry parts of the wise, the simple, and the fool. I’m reminded constantly that a lot of me is still the fool, further along than I used to be, […]
Wisdom and Covenant, Wisdom Personified // Three Characters in Proverbs Part 4
We’ve defined the word, we’ve watched wisdom get pursued and what it produces. Today we’re closing out the wise with two things: how wisdom ties directly into covenant relationship with God, and wisdom’s own claim about where she came from. That second part gets theologically interesting, so stay with me to the end. Four Commands, […]
What Wisdom Actually Does in the Body (Proverbs 2)
We’ve spent two weeks on what wisdom is and where it starts. Today we’re getting practical. Proverbs 2 is one long sentence in the Hebrew. It’s going to show us exactly what a person actually does with wisdom, what happens once they have it, and what it protects them from. This is the chapter where […]
The Wise, the Fool, and the Simple in Proverbs
Proverbs gets treated like a fortune cookie a lot of the time. People pull isolated one-liners out of it about ants and money and staying out of trouble, and they miss what the book is actually doing. Proverbs opens by naming three specific kinds of people, and it doesn’t assume you might become one of […]
What Does It Mean to Abide? A John 15 Bible Study
You’ve probably said it, heard it, or seen it on a reel: abide in the Lord. It gets thrown around like we all know exactly what it means and exactly how to do it. But if someone stopped you on a random Tuesday and asked you to explain what abiding actually looks like, could you? […]
Moses and Fear: From Fearful to Fearing the Lord
We remember Moses as the guy who stood up to Pharaoh, split the sea, and walked down a mountain with the Law in his hands. What we don’t talk about nearly as much is how afraid he was through most of it. Fear followed Moses from a basket on the Nile all the way to […]
Gideon and Fear: What Judges 6–7 Teaches About Courage
The Bible doesn’t introduce Gideon by saying “here’s this guy that God’s going to raise up.” Instead, we find Gideon hiding in a winepress, fearful of the Midianites taking his grain. It’s here that one of my favorite Bible story begins. This fearful, coward of a man will soon be called a “mighty man of […]
Faith Beyond Yourself | What is Faith? Part 7
Seven parts ago, we started this series with a question: what is faith, really? What does it mean? What does it look like to actually live it out? Over the last several weeks we’ve watched real people answer that question with their lives through the hall of faith in Hebrews 11. Abel answered it with […]
Faith That Costs Everything: Rahab and the Unnamed Believers of Hebrews 11
This is the section most Bible studies rush through, because it gets uncomfortable. We could spend a lot more time here than we’re going to, and I want to be honest about that. But this section might be the most important one in the whole chapter, because it’s the one that deals with what happens […]