Here we come to another principle that runs throughout the Bible.

“The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working” (Jas. 5:16). Effective praying depends on right living.

“Likewise, husbands, live with your wives i...

God is speaking here to the leaders among His people. The problem is that these leaders have betrayed their trust. They were abusing the trust that they had been given by God.

These prophets and priests were called to be shepherds of God's ...

You are accountable for all that you have been given, and the more you have been given, the more accountable you are.

That’s why the Bible urges us to pray for our leaders. Children, pray for your parents, because God has given them a big ...

Jesus told a story about three servants who were trusted with investing money. Two of them did a good job. They were enterprising and showed themselves to be wise managers.

In Matthew’s version, when the master returned, he said: “Well done...

It is worth taking a moment to think about what God has entrusted to you. Here are some areas to reflect on.

Relationships. Your relationships are a trust from God. Every wedding reminds us that one person’s happiness is largely entrusted i...

The Bible has a great deal to say about leadership. Some positions of leadership are elected. That is, people make a choice through a process of voting, by which they trust the task of leadership to people who are willing to take that responsibili...

God is speaking. And He says two things that He will do: Some time ago, Professor Don Carson was asked to speak at Cambridge University. When he had finished his presentation on biblical Christianity, one of the faculty got up and asked: “So what ...

When Micah spoke the Word of God, there were strong voices in the community that did not want to hear it.

The first marker of the false prophet is that he or she brings comfort to people who are still in their sins: “Micah, you talk about j...

“I am devising disaster.” He is explaining the action that He is about to take against those who take advantage of the vulnerable: “against this family I am devising disaster” (2:3).

A society that follows the path of exploitation will not ...

These people are intentionally pursuing the wrong path. Their plan is to make money by taking advantage of vulnerable people: 'They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheri...

“Revelation” is the word that we use to describe how the invisible, incomprehensible God has made Himself known.

You can come to know God, not through your own ideas or feelings about what He may be like, but through His own revelation of H...

A large part of the world’s religion is precisely this: speculation about the nature of God. Men (and women) have thought, talked, meditated, and written about what they think God is like.

Twenty-first century secularists have picked up on ...

How can we come to know the sovereign God of the Bible? We can’t see Him, hear Him, taste Him, touch Him, or smell Him. God is invisible. More than that, He is incomprehensible.

This really is about the most fundamental question a human bei...

Shaving the head was an act of mourning before the Lord. When one sees a disaster happening in the land that he loves, that person will mourn for himself and for his loved ones.

Disasters will always have one of two effects in your life: Ei...

In America, where I have been a pastor for many years now, some people are confident that they know why God sends disasters. Some would say it is because of abortion. Some would say it is because of America’s policy towards Israel. Some would even...

Job was the righteous man who suffered incredible loss in a terrorist attack and a natural disaster on the same day. We know Satan’s hand was behind what Job suffered, but the Bible does not allow us to think for a moment that Satan operates as a ...

We must affirm that God is in control not only of good things but also bad. This isn't easy. In fact, it is so difficult that some Christians have felt that it would be better to keep God at a distance from disasters altogether.

Back in the...

Notice Micah’s response to his own message! Here is a man with the Word of God, who also shares the heart of God.

Micah says that the wound in the Northern Kingdom is “incurable” (1:9), and that Samaria’s resistance to God has essentially r...

Who is Micah? What education does he have? What does he understand about the complexity of city life, or business, or international politics? What does he know about the psychological roots of dysfunction in the family? What does this country bump...

In Old Testament times, Micah was a common name, rather like Smith today. We are told that Micah was from Moresheth, a tiny little farming village about 20 miles from Jerusalem. It was about as obscure a town as you could imagine.

And who w...

Some people have been blessed with a wonderful upbringing. Your father loved you, spent time with you, and was a role model for you. But others have had a very different experience.

Perhaps your father was a picture of what you do not want ...

If you had lived at the time of King Ahaz, you would probably have felt everything was lost. But God did a new thing through King Hezekiah.

You can apply this to any great crisis in your family, your business, or your nation: God can bring ...

Micah’s ministry spanned a period of about 50 years (750-700 BC). He lived and preached at the same time as the prophet Isaiah.

During this time, Israel was divided in two—the Northern Kingdom (often called Samaria), and the Southern Kingdo...

Job was the most righteous man of his time. Yet he suffered a terrorist attack and a natural disaster on the same day. The Sabeans came and murdered his servants and animals, and then a hurricane came and flattened the house where all of his child...

The great promise of the Bible is not just that God will restore His people, but that He will restore creation. There will be a new heaven and a new earth.

Old hostilities will be reconciled: “The wolf and the lamb shall graze together” (65...

The important point here is that people will settle down in heaven. In this world, many people find a home, but oftentimes they don’t get to enjoy it.

As you get older, you find that you cannot maintain the family home you have loved for so...

Taking the last part of this verse first. Isaiah is telling us that death will be no more. He is using the analogy of what we can understand to point us toward what, right now, is beyond our grasp. It’s hard to get your mind around living for eter...

When God says that “the former things shall not be remembered” in the new heaven and the new earth, it does not mean that we will have no memory of this life. We will know one another in heaven. We will know and remember Christ’s love for us and H...