What is the secret to the good life? A new car? A bigger house? Having the sort of fame that mass media attention or lots of followers on Facebook or Twitter bring you? The freedom to go where you want and do what you want? Solomon tried all the options….

It’s not enough to build beautiful buildings if you want God to be glorified. Europe and many parts of the United States are adorned with marvelous ecclesiastical architecture – but no one worships in all too many of these centuries-old sanctuaries. Some have been closed, others have been sold off…

Wisdom and understanding – when we think of these things, we often conjure up images of white-coated researchers, or perhaps bespectacled, tweedy philosophy professors. But the Bible has a more comprehensive view of wisdom, one which insists not only on the possession of knowledge, but also its application in the…

Anyone who doubts the importance of visual symbols hasn’t been watching the news lately. After all, how many protests have we seen that call for the removal of Confederate statuary from our public spaces, even though most of them are well over 100 years old? And a few years ago,…

“Love is strong as death” (8:6). How many widows and widowers can bear witness to this? For so many people, “Til death us do part” is only true physically, as the bonds of affection linger long after their spouse has died. And this sort of love is just as strong…

“Arise, my darling, my beautiful one, and come along!” Who could resist such an invitation? Who wouldn’t want to be considered desirable and attractive? And don’t we all want those we admire to want to spend time with us? Of course, Solomon’s beloved didn’t think she was worthy of his…

What is the most important attribute of a husband or wife? Under the spell of Romanticism, our modern society has cast its vote for visual attractiveness. And beauty is, in fact, important: the Song of Solomon is in the Bible after all, and it is largely made up of two…

Why do Americans need to know about kings? We are citizens of a Federal Republic. We get to elect our own leaders. In fact, when we go into the voting booth, together we wield the sovereignty of the United States. But that’s all the more reason we need to pay…

“Why do you do this to yourself every weekend?” That’s what I asked the guys on my hall during my Freshman year in college. Most of them went to parties on Friday and Saturday nights and thus spent significant daytime hours of every weekend with the headaches and the nausea…

If terrorist attacks, pandemics and violent riots have made population density dangerous, the internet has rendered it largely unnecessary. There’s no need to travel to shop at the most exclusive stores or go to the library or even to attend a university. Millions of books have been scanned and are…