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A reader recently asked: I am not clear in understanding when our names are written in the Book of Life.

Every year, my wife and I fly to meet my family for Christmas.

If Bible reading plans have burned you before, I wrote a short, gentle guide called You Are Not Bad At Reading the Bible.

Genesis introduced rumors of giants, and the spies in Canaan seemed to confirm them, but now we’ll see them step onto the stage with armor of bronze and beds of iron.

Every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor.

Q&A: Connecting with God versus Studying the Bible as a Textbook A VerseNotes reader asked, How do you stay connected to God through Scripture versus just studying the Bible as a textbook?

After you’ve encountered some of the weirder things in the Bible—Ezekiel’s wheels within wheels, Elisha’s floating axe head, Balaam’s talking donkey, a fire-breathing Leviathan—finding giants in Genesis feels practically normal.

What if God wasn’t Almighty?

TL;DR: Moses made five objections to God’s call at the burning bush (Exodus 3–4): “Who am I?”

Lamentations is one of the most structurally surprising books in the Bible.