There’s so much beauty in revisiting the stories you’ve read many times before. Recently, I re-read the story of Jesus feeding the 4,000—an incredible moment in Scripture of God’s miraculous power on display. There is a detail about this story present in both Matthew 15 and Mark 8 that I missed in the past. “Jesus called his disciples and said, ‘I have compassion on the crowd, because they’ve already stayed with me three days and have nothing to eat. I don’t want to send them away hungry,...

Have you ever considered the Bible stories we teach to be “children’s stories”? I didn’t grow up in church, but when I accepted Christ as a teenager, I quickly began serving in children’s church. It became a really great way for me to learn the stories in the Bible because I was learning about who God is alongside these kids. I was shocked to learn that the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was in our children’s curriculum—to me, that seemed like more of a source of nightmares rather than an...