There are at least two ideologies that American Christians have absorbed in the 20th century that have harmed our ability to think in biblical categories. These ideas seem innocent, but when placed against the standard of Scripture, they are revealed to be bankrupt. We have absorbed individualism and globalism.

How should one begin to get wisdom? Proverbs 9:10 answers this question: “the fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom.” Learn to fear the LORD, and you will learn to apply wisdom to life. Proverbs 14 speaks of fearing the Lord more than most proverbs. Four times in this chapter, Solomon speaks of the benefits of the fear of the Lord. For this reason, I have entitled Proverbs 14 “Wisdom’s Fear.”

Creation has a way of slowing a man down long enough for him to notice what has always been true. This truth is not the loud message the world repeats—about achievement, comfort, or control—but the quieter truth written into stone, water, and sky. Scripture says, “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork” (Ps. 19:1). That declaration does not require interpretation. It requires only that a man step outside and pay attention.

This coming Sunday, millions of Christians around the world will celebrate their risen Savior. But did Jesus really rise from the dead? If you are a believer, the answer is obvious. However, it is important to ask, because there is no more important historical event than the resurrection of Christ. As Paul wrote in his letter to the Corinthian church in A.D. 55, “if Christ be not risen, then our preaching is vain and our faith is vain, and ye are yet in your sins” (1 Cor. 15:

Psalm 90 was written by a pilgrim. Moses, the man of God, whose prayer is recorded for us, was born a stranger in a land he knew was not his own. His parents were not Egyptians. And while he was raised by Egyptians—the daughter of the pharaoh of Egypt—he understood that he was not an Egyptian. Hebrews 11 records a pivotal decision in Moses’ life, “when he was come to years,” where “he refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction wit

Every baseball player eventually faces the same humbling moment. The pitcher winds up, the ball leaves his hand, and halfway to the plate it stops behaving like a baseball should. The pitch drops, bends, and disappears under the bat. The hitter swings anyway and comes up empty.