Whether you need a boost during the tough times or a reason to rejoice, there's a Bible verse for every occasion.

The Jesus of Luke is an enormously powerful figure. I mean he comes on the scene as a prophet straight out of the Hebrew Bible. At his first appearance in his hometown synagogue he quotes the ...

The Bible underscores the necessity of works enabled by grace, affirming that faith alone does not complete our salvation.

Music has always been a powerful medium for conveying messages, emotions, and stories. Throughout history, many musicians ...

Mom and dad have four children: two boys and two girls. Mom has been gone almost a year, but dad and her children remain.

The Sunday lectionary reading for the Second Sunday before Advent in Year B is Mark 13.1–8. This feels a little odd, in that ...

Written by scholars who love the text and love teaching it, this volume introduces students to the multiple ways people around the globe interpret the Bible, with special focus on the parable of the ...

Jesus was passing through Jericho. There was a chief tax collector there named Zacchaeus, who was rich. Zacchaeus was a little man, and wanted to see Jesus, so he climbed a sycamore tree. Jesus lo ...

As a careful historian, Luke sets the scene of Jesus' birth in its political context by mentioning various rulers and places at the time (2:1-4 ... Samaritan (10:25-37). He alone tells us ...