A lone prophet stands before the people as judgment looms behind him—symbolizing God’s warning, Israel’s resistance, and the unmistakable roar of truth. One of the most brilliant and overlooked moments in the book of Amos happens in chapter 3, when God asks Israel a rapid-fire series of questions. At first glance, they look like simple observations about nature and everyday life. But when you slow down and listen the way Israel would have heard them, you begin to see what God

A lone figure sits in the darkness of a broken world while light breaks through—reminding us that even in the presence of evil, hope has a source. One of the biggest questions people ask about God is this: If He is all-powerful and all-good, why does He allow evil? This challenge—often called the Epicurean Problem of Evil —argues that the existence of suffering makes the existence of God unlikely. The argument goes like this: If God wants to stop evil but can’t, He isn’t all-