Bible Studies

When Adam sinned he answered the Lord saying, “I heard the sound of You in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself” (Gen 3:10). He sinned, heard the Lord coming and hid in fear of what would happen. The Lord gave Adam paradise with one restriction, and he […]

Augustine of Hippo stands as one of the towering sequoias of Western history. His theology laid a foundation for Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther, and John Calvin; his philosophy affected Rene Descartes, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Martin Heidegger. Many of the greatest thinkers in our world have basked to some degree in the broad shadow of Augustine;

Those familiar with great suffering often produce the most enduring pieces of literature. Miguel de Cervantes was shot in battle and sold as a slave prior to writing Don Quixote. Fyodor Dostoevsky stood before a firing squad at one point and was exiled to four miserable years in Siberia before writing Crime and Punishment and

The robber barons who built America were shrewd, often heartless businessmen driven to win. Consider Cornelius Vanderbilt who owned the only rail bridge in and out of New York City—the Albany Bridge. It was the rail industry’s lifeline to the nation’s busiest port at the time. When Vanderbilt shut it down, Wall Street bled. The