The link between the city of Sodom and homosexual acts, from which the word “sodomize” comes, is largely a later cultural reading rather than a careful one. In Genesis 19, the sin of Sodom is indeed an attempted act of collective sexual violence, but it was directed at visitors who …

It was five years ago that Dani finally told me what had happened. He had disappeared, and it took him a year to reach out and tell me why he, an Israeli Jew who had accepted Yeshua as his Messiah, had walked away from the messianic faith. Some context before …

I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. (Isaiah 41:17) Imagine a people so small you could fit all of them into one mid-sized city and still have room. They hold no empire and no natural resources worth invading for. For most of recorded history they have been the …

I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. (Matthew 5:44) In my country, the word enemy is not a metaphor. It is not a difficult coworker or a cousin who says cruel things at weddings. It is a siren at three in the morning and …

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is …

I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them. (Isaiah 41:17) Imagine a people so small you could fit all of them into one mid-sized city and still have room. They hold no empire and no natural resources worth invading for. For most of recorded history they have been the …

In a democracy, capitalism has a built-in brake. As long as most people feel the system works for them too, that they can work, get ahead, and provide for a family with dignity, they’ll support it. But when capitalism turns predatory, when all the gains flow upward to a few …

Few sentences in Scripture have carried more weight than the last five words of Romans 5:12, and few have been more badly misread. Paul writes that sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and that death then spread to every human being, eph’ hō pantes hēmarton, …

If anyone tells you that to know God you must first learn Hebrew, that’s complete nonsense. You can be blind, deaf, and illiterate and still know Him intimately. God has never been locked behind a language. The simplest believer who cannot read a word can walk closer to God than …

Aïdios is often translated as “eternal” (or “everlasting”) in English Bibles, but the word itself does not inherently mean endless duration. Its core idea is that of something unbroken, enduring, or unrelenting. Remarkably, aidios appears only twice in the New Testament. Epistle to the Romans uses it once to describe …