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.
In Revelation 2:12-17, we meet the Church in Pergamum, a group of Christians that one has to admire for holding fast to the name...
The construction of the tabernacle foreshadowed greater dwellings of God, which he keeps building by plundering the nations.
In his teachings on his way to Jerusalem, Jesus announced the great reversals that the kingdom of God produces among the first and the...