How well do you know the Bible? For too long we have read through the Scriptures as though they were composed in a timeless vacuum - but the peoples of the Ancient Near East and the First-Century knew things that we are no longer aware of, and saw the world in ways that are foreign to modern readers. The last 100 years of archaeology have upended much of what we thought we knew about the most important Book ever composed - the Bible. Archaeology, far from detracting from Biblical credibility - has solidified it. The sixty-six witnesses to the ministry of the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob...

Revised and expanded second edition What have we settled for? Are we giving Him all He deserves? Everything of any importance in our lives as believers has to boil down to our relationship with our Creator, and yet we have been taught to settle for something lukewarm. We have relegated our walk with God to little more than a hobby, when the Scriptures plainly show us that God Himself is passionately in love with His people. He has revealed Himself as Father, Husband, King, and Master and has called each of us to become child, bride, ambassador and servant. How do we meet His level of...

Are you tired of being asked tough questions, both by kids and skeptics, about some of the terrible things in the Bible? Are you tired of not having real answers? Don't you wish you understood why Bible people sometimes did terrible things? No one is satisfied with pat answers like, "Well, I know God is good," or "Jesus came to change all that." If we truly believe that God is good and that Jesus is the exact image of the Father, then those answers won't satisfy us - much less anyone else. What if I told you that we can learn the answers to the hard questions by studying ancient Near Eastern...