The Lord sought to establish the nation of Israel as a people for Himself. He would do so by a covenant, intimately drawing this people near to Him. But the people of Israel would not be faithful to God. Instead, they would enter into relationships with other nations,...
Lamentations is a book of grief wherein Jeremiah cries out to God in distress having prophesied and finally witnessed the destruction of Jerusalem. Though we will likely not witness destruction of this kind in our own lifetimes, it still behooves us to consider how we...
Sometimes life does not turn out how we thought it would. This is certainly true for many of the people we read about in the Bible. As Ken Boa states, “sometimes God’s plans are not our plans. In fact, that’s often the case….” (p. 175, 52 Greatest...
