Gospel reflections, testimony, doctrine and teaching — rooted in Scripture, for the Canadian church.
Circumcision was more than a physical covenant sign given to Abraham. Throughout Scripture, God reveals a deeper spiritual reality—a circumcision of the heart. Discover how physical circumcision points to the removal of sin, hardness, and rebellion through the transforming work of Christ.
Read ArticleThe concept of strongholds is one of the most misunderstood and misapplied teachings in the modern church.
Proverbs is the Bible's book of practical, everyday wisdom — how to handle money, work, speech, relationships, and character. Thirty-one chapters, and unlike most books we've covered, it's not really telling a story. Here's how it's actually built.
Psalms is the longest book in the Bible — 150 chapters, written over roughly a thousand years by multiple authors. It's not a story, it's a songbook and prayer book. You can't summarize 150 chapters one at a time in five minutes, so here's how it's actually organized, and the major types of psalms inside it.
Job loses everything in a single day — his wealth, his ten children, and eventually his health — and spends most of the book demanding an explanation from God. He never really gets one.
Esther is the only book in the entire Bible that never directly mentions God's name — and yet it's one of the clearest pictures in Scripture of God working behind the scenes to save His people from total destruction.
Jerusalem's temple was rebuilt in Ezra. But the city itself still sat exposed, walls in rubble, almost a century after the exile ended. Nehemiah is the story of how that finally got fixed — in 52 days.
Seventy years after Jerusalem fell to Babylon, exactly as the prophets had predicted, a pagan Persian king issues a decree that sends the exiles home. Ten chapters — here's the return and rebuild.
2 Chronicles covers the same three-and-a-half centuries as 1 and 2 Kings — but tells the story almost exclusively through Judah, and ends with a twist Kings doesn't have: a door left open.