This week we begin to explore the problem of what went wrong in the world. From the biblical perspective, what went wrong began when right worship was redirected from God to created things. Idolatry is that movement of trust from God to created...

What sets humans apart? What makes a person so uniquely valuable? The answer on offer is often that we are not uniquely valuable, or if we are it is only because we are the creatures who made up fictions powerful enough to coordinate huge groups of...

What is life? In recent years, many have claimed that the answer to that age-old question has been found. Ask any biochemist and they will tell you that the answer boils down to an awkward acronym—CHNOPS: carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen...

Every story takes place somewhere. Or, to put it another way, no story takes place nowhere, because every story has a setting. The story of Scripture is no exception. Part of what it means to have a converted imagination is that we imagine ourselves...

Everyone loves a good story. Stories are so much a part of life that we take them for granted. In fact, there is hardly a moment in a day that we aren't telling a story, if not to someone else, then to ourselves. One could almost say that our...

In this last installment of our series in Proverbs, we see the overarching principle that guides life in the home. One author summarizes it with the phrase "My Life for Yours." Each member of the household is not looking to the household...

This week we come to the topic of discipline. Too often we fail to appreciate the importance of directing a child in the way he should go. Discipline is aimed at a particular purpose, and Proverbs gives us direction on how we can pursue it.

When you think of the book of Proverbs, you don't usually think of a story. And yet, the book is framed up as though some event is underway. It reads as though it was meant to be presented to a Davidic heir undergoing preparation. And what is...

This week we continue in Proverbs as the father describes the process of gaining wisdom. He describes it like an initiation into a way of life, what the ancients would have called a paideia. The path is one of listening, of fearing the Lord, and...