Around 945 BC, King Solomon, in his later years, delivered what we now know as the book of Ecclesiastes. His opening words, repeated throughout, are jarring: “Vanity of vanities! All is vanity” (Ecc 1:2). These words reflect a lifetime o...

How do we, nearly 2,000 years after the apostles, know we are reading God’s inspired Word? This question once drove me to study how the Bible has been preserved across centuries of copying, translating, and human error. Growing up in a King Jam...

I once believed that God had preserved every word of Scripture through a perfect, error-free line of manuscripts, culminating in the King James Bible (KJV). But when I finally studied the history, my assumptions quickly unraveled. My first surp...

For believers, understanding how we got the Bible is essential. Yet, like many Christians, I once assumed the Bible’s path to us was simple and miraculous in a way that shielded it from human error. Twelve years ago, I held a King James-only vi...

When I began preparing a series of Christian biographies, I didn’t anticipate skipping ahead in time. Yet, I feel compelled to discuss someone who has personally spoken to me more than anyone else in church history: Charles Spurgeon.I st...