It is hard to imagine what the world would be like without Saul of Tarsus (the apostle Paul), but it would have been harder to imagine that such a violent persecutor of Christians would become a Christian and a missionary. His conversion and call, recorded in Acts 9:1-22, teach us not to despair of anyone or of ourselves, because God’s grace is sufficient for them and for us.
Through a series of mistakes by the disciples, Jesus taught them and us what following him is not.
In Jonah 1, we meet the Israelite prophet who preferred to flee rather than obey the Lord’s call to do something new, surprising, and...
One of the most controversial sections of James is James 2:14-26, because some verses sounds very different from what we find in Paul’s teaching....