Our modern take on apocalypse and horror movies leave us unprepared to see how people in the chaos of 70 AD in Jerusalem would have found Jesus' apocalyptic message to be good news. Yet there's surprising guidance for us here in facing our own chaos. (Mark 13)

Insight from Judges into America's transition of presidential power and the role of our people in the years ahead. (Judges 4:1-7)

Our curiosity about the lives of people long

forgotten ought to make us more conscious of

the substance of our own lives. Even if we fail to

appreciate our trues spiritual wealth, God

always sees it and recognizes us as the saints

we are. (Ecclesiasticus 44:1-10)

God has given us everything we have in the hope that, in return, we will give ourselves to building the Kingdom of God wherever we live. Good stewardship is giving ourselves wholeheartedly to this mission. (Deuteronomy 34:1-12)

Mel Gibson says there are two types of people: those who see everything as a matter of odds and believe they're on their own, and those who see events as signs that point to a God who makes sense of our existence. Which are you? (Exodus 33:12-23)

The Decalogue takes on a new meaning when a catastrophic event steals all that we have, murders our friends, drives our families into dysfunction, and undermines our faith in the one God. It is the Decalogue that shows us how to live in the "new normal. (Exodus 20:1-17, 32:1-29)