The scapegoat in the Bible wasn’t an innocent blamed for others. On the Day of Atonement it carried real, confessed sin away for good. Here’s what it means.
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What Is the Feast of Trumpets? A Shout to Be Remembered
What is the Feast of Trumpets? Leviticus gives it one verse and no reason. The Hebrew points to a shout asking God to remember, for anyone still waiting.
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The Earliest Evidence of Drug Use Is 25,000 Years Old. It May Have Started With a Toothache.
The earliest evidence of drug use is in 25,000-year-old teeth from Sulawesi. Researchers think it began as toothache relief that slowly made the pain worse.
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What Does the Bible Say About Leviathan? The Sea Monster God Made to Play
What does the Bible say about Leviathan? Job says no human can play with it. Psalm 104 says God made it to play, in the very same Hebrew words. Here is why.
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What Does the Bible Say About Retirement? One Rule, at 50
What does the Bible say about retirement? One passage sets an age: at 50, the Levites stopped the heavy lifting. The next verse tells them to keep showing up.
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What Does the Bible Say About Gray Hair? Look How It Describes Jesus
What does the Bible say about gray hair? Proverbs calls it a crown (with a condition), and Revelation gives the risen Jesus hair white as snow. Here’s why.
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Three Days of Darkness in the Bible Needed No Candles
The three days of darkness prophecy says only blessed candles will give light. The Bible’s real three days of darkness, in Exodus 10, ends very differently.
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Sleeping With the Light On May Reshape Your Heart
Sleeping with the light on, even dimly, was linked to thicker, stiffer hearts in a study of 11,071 people. What it found, what it can’t prove, and what helps.
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30 Days With Jesus: What He Wanted First Was Your Company
30 days with Jesus starts where the first twelve did: before Jesus gave them any task, Mark 3:14 says he chose them to be with him. Here is what that changes.
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Religious Candle: Why “Always” Meant Every Evening
A religious candle is only as good as the evenings you come back to it. The Tabernacle lamp was told to “burn always” – then tended from evening to morning.