Who Was Eli? Have you ever felt like you were given a sacred responsibility, but you struggled to manage your own household? That was Eli, a priest and judge of Israel whose story is both cautionary and redemptive. Eli served at the tabernacle in Shiloh during a dark time when "everyone did what was right in his own eyes" (Judges 21:25). He was the mentor of the prophet Samuel, and his life reveals how even the most devoted servants can fail in their most important relationsh

Few topics appear more consistently throughout Scripture than love. From the first chapters of Genesis to the final pages of Revelation, the Bible speaks of love — God's love for humanity, the love humans are called to show one another, and the nature of love itself. The Foundation: God Is Love "God is love," writes the apostle John in 1 John 4:8. This isn't just saying that God is loving — it's saying that love is the defining essence of who God is. "We love because he first

The Easter story is the center of the Christian faith. Everything in the New Testament — and, according to the apostles, everything in the Old Testament — points toward this: the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. The story of the resurrection of Jesus is found in all four Gospels — Matthew 28, Mark 16, Luke 24, and John 20. Each account offers unique details, together creating a rich, multi-witness portrait of the most consequential events in history. The Wee