As the nation remembers the victims of terrorism, it is fitting to ask, 'Has the tragedy of September 11, 2001, changed us for the better?'

During Amos' day, people were busy making money, being entertained, and practicing their religion. But God was also busy—sending famines, droughts, and epidemics.

As God's patience with modern Israel is tried, the likelihood of major earthquakes in North America may be dramatic and devastating.

History shows that an energy crisis can strike at the very core of Japan's existence and cause it to respond in dramatic ways to guard its energy lifeline.

In the days after 9-11, a few brave souls linked the tragedy to America's increasingly immoral lifestyle, but many of these people were shouted down.

God's impartial judgment is a significant factor in the book of Amos. He will execute proper judgment, true justice, on all according to their works.

Nuclear reactors are melting with fervent heat, anticipating the ultimate fate of our planet. Scripture is replete with images of melting and destruction.

In the aftermath of disasters, we hear about innocents suffering. But is anybody truly innocent? Has God not been patient when He could exact the death penalty?

Today, disasters are rarely attributed to God's wrath, but Scripture contains many instances of God sending calamities on sinful people, even pandemics.

To assume that God will take care of us without our making an effort to provide for ourselves is a dangerous presumption.

How are we going to react when the next disaster strikes our area? Are we going to gripe and complain? Are we going to sit and wait for somebody to help us?

Those caught in the throes of chronic depression, unable to cope with the stress of horrendous events, need the sympathetic understanding of brethren.

Amos indicts rampant, dishonest practices, placing gain above honesty, morality, or ethics, and arrogantly and covetously exploiting the needy for profit.

The family is under savage attack, with more and more children born out of wedlock. With the destruction of the family, we are witnessing the death of the U.S.

When Joel describes the devastating locust plagues, instead of promising a silver lining on a very black cloud, he says things are going to get intensely worse.

How do we get the faith we need to endure this present age? Living faith requires that we match hearing with productive works.

Alarmists in recent decades have wrongly predicted overpopulation, famine, water rationing, peak oil, killer bees, global cooling, and global warming.

The Lamentations show poignant before-and-after vignettes of formerly happy times contrasted with the horror of the present as God punishes Judah.