by Omri Miles | Aug 14, 2025 | Crook & Nib
Even though officials are sitting down and speaking to one another against me, your slave muses on your statutes. Also, your testimonies are my delight, my men of advice. Psalm 119:23-24 (author’s translation) How would you respond to learning that the most powerful...
by Omri Miles | May 22, 2025 | Crook & Nib
And he set one in Bethel, and one he put in Dan. Now this thing became a sin, for the people went to worship before the one as far as Dan. — First Kings 12:29-30 Biblical balance is not always found between two available options. First Kings 12:25-33 teaches this...
by Omri Miles | Apr 1, 2025 | Crook & Nib, Updates
“An ignorant population is a perilous and expensive burden to any nation.” What J. C. Ryle (1816-1900) said about nations is equally true of churches. An ignorant congregation is a perilous and expensive burden to the church because all that God demands of his people...
by Omri Miles | Dec 16, 2024 | Crook & Nib
Earlier this month, a group of leaders in the biblical counseling movement that included scholars, authors, practitioners, and pastors wrote and signed The Sufficiency Statement. I am, gratefully, one of those original signatories. I have never signed a public...
by Omri Miles | Oct 1, 2024 | Crook & Nib
In his musings on practical atheism, Stephen Charnock reminds his readers why they must prize and study the Scriptures: “When the revelation is despised, the revealer will be of little esteem.”* This captures the basic truth that esteeming the Scriptures is the means...
