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Satan's Menagerie Many people know some Bible facts. For instance, nearly everyone knows that Jesus said, “Judge not” (Matt. 7:1). Many have heard of the Antichrist and know that his number is 666—although they probably didn’t learn this from the Bible but got it from a movie. They might be surprised to learn that the Antichrist appears in...

The Great Fall Sociologist Edward T. Hall has called culture “the silent language” that controls our lives in unsuspected ways. Because we are embedded in culture, we intuit the rules but rarely give them conscious thought. Hall warns, “Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from...

The Arrival of the King of Kings Many people gather at Christmas or Easter to hear a performance of the oratorio Messiah by George Frideric Handel. A highlight of the piece is the “Hallelujah” chorus, which acclaims Jesus as “King of Kings and Lord of Lords.” Anyone who has heard the work cannot read today’s verses without hearing Handel’s...

Human Silence: Israel and the Silence of Unbelief In Walker Percy’s novel The Second Coming, a depressed character named Will Barrett decides to put God’s existence to the test. Is He really there or not? Will enters a cave and resolves not to come out unless God gives him a sign. If not, he will die. Rather humorously, during this experiment...

Divine Silence? Our Feeling of Despair Rodrigues, a seventeenth-century missionary in Japan in the novel Silence by Shusaku Endo, wrestled with the silence of God. Where was God, he wondered, when His church was suffering? Where was He when powerful and godless authorities exploited the poor and insulted His name? Where was He when new converts...

In today's online devotional from Moody Bible Institute, American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, “It’s never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be...

Our children love to unwrap presents. To say they are excited would be a huge understatement. Read more in today's daily devotional from Moody Bible Institute.

In today's devotional...Imagine you have been invited to a meal, but not just any table. You are a guest at the table where Jesus and His friends gathered for the Passover Feast.

As we continue in our daily devotional study from Moody Bible Institute, Chris Rappazini asks, "What do you worry about? What is pressing on your heart today? "

True thankfulness can motivate us to action. That’s what happened to a leper whose life was forever changed by Jesus. Learn more in today's devotional from Moody Bible Institute.