The car’s gravity manipulator gently landed it in a clearing in the middle of a Martian forest. Four men, dressed in forest camouflage,...

Light from Mars’ twin moons reflected off the grey steel roofing of a small mining settlement surrounded by a wall of stripped logs. ...

Ecclesiastes 1:9-11 What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun....

Ecclesiastes 1:4-8 A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and...

Ecclesiastes 1:3 What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun? Nothing. Work is hebel. We work our whole lives and...

Now, I'd like to divide the passage up and look at it in sections to look a bit closer at what these verses are saying to us......

The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem. Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity....

He could barely see anything in the extreme Himalayan snowstorm. What had been, just a matter of minutes before, a peaceful, terraced...

Two weeks after Almasi’s meeting with Catherine, and three weeks after he’d been captured, Paul stood beside Xiu Ying at the underground...

Paul sat on the balcony of the small stone house he had been assigned sipping his morning coffee. Below him, the rest of the village, a...

‘When will he wake up?’ said a man’s voice to Paul’s left. ‘Should be anytime now,’ said a woman’s voice directly in front of him. Paul’s...

‘If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it,...

The world is a very divided place. There are countless examples around the world and throughout history of divisions between people and...

Matthew 5:13 (ESV) You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer...

Verses 27-28 - 27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful,...

Verses 25-26 - 25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are...

After that introduction to Matthew 23, let’s look a bit closer at verses 23-28. Verses 23-24 - 23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees,...

Matthew 23:1–36 (ESV): 23 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, 2 “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat, 3 so...

The sun glinted off the solar panels of the Russian satellite as it silently orbited Earth’s moon. Doors on the side of its cylindrical...