Exploring what the Bible teaches about the nature and attributes of God—His existence, character, sovereignty, and Trinitarian nature.
Towards the end of January 2026 you should see a number of posts here.
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2061. I hear this question often, sometimes gently and sometimes with real frustration: why does God seem so different in the Old Testament, commanding conquest and judgment, compared to the New Testament, where Jesus speaks of love and mercy? The honest answer begins with God’s unchanging character, because the God of the Old Testament…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2007. Genesis 2:2-3 tells me that God finished His work of creation and rested on the seventh day, and that simple statement about seventh day rest raises an obvious question the moment I stop to think about it, one that catches most thoughtful readers sooner or later. God does not get tired. He does…
Reading Time: 11 minutesQuestion 8010. The Angel of the LORD is the most intriguing figure in the Old Testament, and working out who He is has been one of the most rewarding studies I have ever undertaken. He steps into the story unannounced, speaks as God in the first person, accepts worship that no created angel would dare…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 07063 Common grace is the undeserved kindness God shows to everybody without exception, and saving grace is the undeserved kindness by which He rescues those who trust Jesus. Both are grace, because neither is earned. They differ in scope, in purpose and in what they accomplish. The distinction is worth getting straight, because a…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 6016. The suffering of Job is the passage everyone reaches for when life collapses, and it is also the book most often misused. People quote the patience of Job at those who are anything but patient, and they quote the ending at people who are nowhere near it. Let me try to read it…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 2000. God’s existence is not something I can prove to you the way I could prove that the kettle is boiling, by pointing at it and letting you see the steam, but that does not mean the question is unanswerable or the evidence is thin. Every person alive already lives as though something ultimate…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 6011. Does God cause suffering, or does He only allow it? I have stood at enough hospital beds and gravesides to know this is never an academic question. How you answer it shapes whether you can trust God on the worst day of your life. If He directly causes every agony, He begins to…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 2080. David’s child died on the seventh day of his illness, the son born to David and Bathsheba after their affair and the arranged death of her husband Uriah, and the story in 2 Samuel 12 remains one of the most emotionally difficult passages many parents ever read. Why would God take the life…
Reading Time: 9 minutesQuestion 2079. Pharaoh’s hardened heart troubles many readers of Exodus for a very understandable reason: if God hardened Pharaoh’s heart, how could Pharaoh be justly held responsible for refusing to let Israel go? This question sits at the intersection of divine action and human responsibility, and I want to walk through it honestly rather than…
Reading Time: 5 minutesQuestion 2078. Abel’s offering is where the whole tragic story of Cain and Abel turns, and the question people bring to me most often is simply why. Cain and Abel both brought something to the LORD. Only one offering was accepted. Understanding why gets to the very heart of what worship has always actually been…