Ecclesiastes: what’s the point?

  Overview of Ecclesiastes The Preacher. This guy has it all. He’s a world-renowned wise man. He’s king over the twelve tribes of Israel. But he can’t hold onto it forever. He’ll die someday, and who knows how his sons will handle the...

Isaiah: judgment and comfort for Israel

The nation of Israel has long been split into two nations: North and South, Israel and Judah.  They’d weathered wars against each other and the surrounding nation for a few hundred years, but neither kingdom can stand through the storms to come. The Assyrians...

Lamentations: the dirge for Jerusalem

The city of God is in ruins. The temple is destroyed. The king’s palace is in shambles. The gates are burned down. The walls are torn apart. The Babylonians have ransacked the holy city. “How?” That’s the original name of Lamentations, this...
The New Testament Books

The New Testament Books

If you look at your Bible’s table of contents, you’ll find that the Bible has two main divisions: the Old Testament and the New Testament. While the Old Testament is bigger (about 77% of the whole Bible), the New Testament is the part with the stories of...