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Isaiah 43:2 — When God Promises to Walk Through Fire With You
Have you ever felt like you were drowning? We’ve all been there. In moments like these, we need more than platitudes. We need a promise. And today’s…
 • Kevin Potter
The Woman in Travail: How Birth Became the Bible’s Most Powerful End-Times Metaphor
Let's explore one of Scripture’s most pervasive and profound metaphors. We’ll trace the “woman in travail” idiom from its ancient Near Eastern origins…
 • Kevin Potter
The Prostitute Who Walked on Water: What Mary of Egypt Reveals About Reading the Septuagint
Mary of Egypt’s story includes miracles that sound impossible, yet her story was so essential that it preserved an ancient Roman temple for over a…
 • Kevin Potter
Be Still and Know: When the Greek Tells You to Go to School
You know the verse. It’s beautiful. It’s comforting. It’s true. But the Greek translation uses a word that literally means “take a scholastic pause” or…
 • Kevin Potter

December 2025

The Scandal of Particularity
God’s greatest gift to humanity didn’t drop out of the sky fully formed. He came through a very specific process, in a very specific place, to a very…
 • Kevin Potter
Mary’s Song
The Magnificat as a Christmas Morning Prayer. Let's take a few minutes to pray with Mary. The Mary of Scripture. The Mary who, when the angel told her…
 • Kevin Potter
Messiah Before Christ
How the Septuagint Prepared the World for Jesus. By the time Jesus was born, Greek-speaking Jews across the Roman Empire had been reading about…
 • Kevin Potter
Beyond Golden Calves, A Comprehensive Biblical Study of Idolatry, Part 8: Breaking Free
Across this series, we’ve examined the full spectrum of idolatry. So we turn now to the only cure that can break the stranglehold of idolatry: the…
 • Kevin Potter
Job 41 (Part 4), Giants, Dragons, and the Days of Noah
Biblical tradition doesn’t just give us dragons. It gives us giants. According to some ancient sources, those two phenomena are directly connected…
 • Kevin Potter
Beyond Golden Calves, A Comprehensive Biblical Study of Idolatry, Part 7: The Most Dangerous Idol
The idol that hides, clothed in robes of piety, carries a Bible, sings hymns, and speaks fluent theology. This idol is religion itself. Of all the forms…
 • Kevin Potter
Job 41 (Part 3), Dragons Across Cultures: From Babylon to Britain
The Universal Dragon Memory: Why do cultures separated by thousands of miles (and oceans!) tell the same story?
 • Kevin Potter
Beyond Golden Calves, A Comprehensive Biblical Study of Idolatry, Part 6: The Ultimate Idol
beneath every form of idolatry lies one primal sin: the worship of self. Because pride isn’t just a sin among sins. It’s the engine that drives all sin…
 • Kevin Potter
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