The opening section of Judges may not be the most exciting portion of an otherwise thrilling book, but it does teach us valuable lessons about divine adequacy, favour and rebuke. In it, we learn about the nature of our covenant-keeping God and his...

Expectations. We all have them. Sometimes our expectations are fulfilled, sometimes they are exceeded, but sometimes they come up short. Sometimes we are disappointed. Largely speaking, religious Jews in the first century were disappointed with what...

Proverbs 5 serves as a warning from a father to his son about sexual immorality. Sexual seduction is at the core of his admonition, but the matter of seduction, generally speaking, is in view here as well. There is much here for every Christian,...

Almost everything Jesus did and said was scandalous to those who would not repent and believe on him. This remains true today—at least for those who, like the scribes and Pharisees, were self-righteous. The self-righteous are offended by the...

Proverbs 5 serves as a warning from a father to his son about sexual immorality. Sexual seduction is at the core of his admonition, but the matter of seduction, generally speaking, is in view here as well. There is much here for every Christian,...

Forgiveness: We all need it. Forgiveness: We all need to grant it. Forgiveness is our greatest need—so why is it so difficult? The passage before us is about forgiveness—God’s forgiveness—and is set in a context of controversy. Jesus’s...

BBC has been through a difficult time recently. Our membership has decreased, for various reasons. In addition to this, many of us are aware of very serious challenges and painful suffering that members are facing. Some are so wounded that they are...

The great hymn, What a Friend we have in Jesus, serves as an important reminder of God’s love for his people. It serves as a great encouragement for us to pray to the one who is merciful. In fact, as we will learn below, he is so full of loving...

We must not be naïve. The Christian life puts us in the middle of conflict. Our hearts cry because of despair and despondency when things are not as we expect. At such a time, we must cry out to the true God, the God of the Bible, David’s God.

John Bunyan once wrote, “You can do more than pray, after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.” The passage before us serves as a powerful example of this truth. Here we see Jesus praying. And then doing more...