In law, there’s such a thing as a statute of limitations. There are some crimes, where, if legal proceedings aren’t begun within a certain number of years, then it’s too late to do anything about it. But there’s no statute of limitations with God. One of the great myths we believe is that time heals sin. That if something happened […]

We have a God who doesn’t just tell us that things are bad. We could work that out for ourselves. He also tells us why they’re bad, and that’s a mercy that we shouldn’t take for granted. We see it in the passage in front of us. The chapter opens with a famine. But there’s something unusual about the famine […]

We’ve seen rebellion, but ultimately peace. God is still holding the kingdom together. And that’s a good thing. It’s very interesting to notice that this is the third of three stories in fairly quick succession in the Bible about women inflicting head wounds. The first is in Judges 4. There you have a woman called Jael, who welcomes an enemy, […]