Who doesn't love the mystery of buried treasure? Stories like "Buried Treasure That Hasn't Been Found Yet!" get even adults excited.  But there's a story of buried treasure in the Bible that didn't end well.

It had been stashed away behind the refrigerator in the garage for 10 years. Daniel needed physical evidence of his father's cruelty. But now truly free, he got that horse whip out, and threw it away.

The Bible is full of what we might call "dangerous answers to prayer."

Laila was exhausted.  She and her husband had prayed for a baby. They'd gone to the doctor.  Month after month and then, year after year. But there was no baby and no understandable reason why. "I can't pray about this anymore," Laila told her father.

How quickly can you answer this question:  What was the last answer to prayer in your life?

Search the internet for an answer to this question and you'll get over 51 million results:  How does God answer prayer?

If you've prayed for something for years without any visible success, would you assume you should give up?

Remarking about the noise of modern life, an alternative pop rock band once sang: If we're adding to the noise, turn off this song!

Have you ever taken a personality test?  Perhaps you learned that you were a solitude seeking introvert or a people pleasing extrovert!  Ever feel like someone else's personality type is somehow better than yours?

For centuries of Christianity, hope meant just one thing: the expectation of a glorious eternity in Heaven.