Acts 3-5 When a seed is planted it is very vulnerable. Birds could come and snatch it up. Rocky soil or weeds could choke it out and kill it. If the tree is going to survive, it must be nurtured and have the proper environment so that it can set its roots and grow...
Joel, as with many other prophets, was preaching a message of urgency and repentance to a nation that was on the verge of being annihilated by an invading horde of “locusts.” The beginning of his book is doom and gloom, but he also offers a glimmer of hope. Read...
Acts 1-2 If a tree is going to grow strong and tall then it must establish a strong root system. Acts 1-2 show how the roots of this newly planted church reached deep into the soil. Jesus is the key to this whole operation. Not only is he the planter of the seed, he...
Through graphic imagery and real-life circumstances, Hosea draws upon the analogy of an adulterous wife to illustrate the state of affairs in Israel. God commanded Hosea to marry Gomer, a prostitute. Even after her adultery and prostitution, God told Hosea to “buy her...
Daniel is unique among the prophets because he is not actually a prophet. The book of Daniel is a difficult book to categorize because Daniel is not a prophet, in that he did not preach to anyone, yet he received a great deal of prophetic dreams and visions from God...
Ezekiel was born during the reign of Josiah, as Jeremiah was preaching about reformation and the King was cleansing the Temple. Read more... Enter the Bible The Bible Project - Ezekiel
Under Construction A Cartoonist's Guide to the Bible is a work in progress. Steve Thomason has been drawing his way through the Bible for 20 years. Some books have lots of drawings, some, like this one, have yet to be drawn.
Jeremiah was a prophet who began his preaching ministry during the heyday of Josiah’s spiritual reformation and watched the nation slide down a slippery slope of wickedness that eventually ended in the total annihilation of the city of Jerusalem. Jeremiah’s story is...
Isaiah lived in a world of war, terror, and uncertainty. His ministry happened during a period of Israel’s history when it seemed that the world was falling apart. For a much richer comprehension of Isaiah, read Isaiah’s book while you have your thumb stuck in 2...
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