In His wilderness temptation with the devil, Jesus fired Scripture at the devil—but He only used ammunition from Deuteronomy. The late Dallas Seminary professor Howard Hendricks used to ask his students, "If your spiritual survival depended on how well...

The Hebrew people had to be on constant guard against being deceived: "Take heed to yourselves," the Lord warned, "lest . . . you serve other gods and worship them." When a Christian reads these words, she or he might say, "But I would never let...

Israel was nothing if not the permanent possession of God—the word "forever" occurs nearly 400 times in the Old Testament, applied to a variety of subjects. Ironically, what was intended to be a never-ending succession of generations...

When a believer faces difficulties in life, there is a perspective one may choose to adopt that can change things: attempt to view difficulties as divine appointments. There are numerous passages in both Testaments, such as Deuteronomy 32:7–12, in...

The mother eagle "Stirs up her nest," "flutters over her young," "spreads abroad her wings," and "bears them on her wings." Let us assume that we are watching this process, and the time is come when the young eagle must leave the nest and strike out...

The Bible contains permissions that, to be understood, must be compared with God's prescriptions. Life in a fallen world results in concessions on a number of important lifestyle matters like marriage. While God prescribed marriage to be a permanent...