Gideon: The Reluctant Judge God Used to Deliver Israel Judges 6–8 When I was in first grade, two well-dressed men visited our classroom and gave each student a small New Testament with Psalms. We knew them as Gideon Bibles, distributed by the Gideons—Christian business and professional men who placed Bibles Read more…
Satan Tempts, but God Tests: Understanding Trials and Temptation If God is good and all-powerful, why does He allow the devil to continue his work? Scripture shows that God may permit Satan to act for a time, but God remains sovereign and uses trials to refine His people for His Read more…
Simon the Sorcerer: Conversion, Sin, and Restoration Acts 8:5–25 Many Christian traditions teach that a person who has been saved can never fall away. This belief is often called the perseverance of the saints. One historic confession states that those whom God has accepted, called, and sanctified “can neither totally Read more…
The Sanhedrin’s Trial of Jesus: Injustice Before the Cross Matthew 26:57–68 Jesus’ trial before the Sanhedrin was one of six proceedings He endured in less than twelve hours—three Jewish hearings and three Roman hearings. History remembers many consequential trials, including those of King Charles I, the Watergate defendants, O. J. Read more…