passing, and stoics are called to repentance for having excised God from His universe: Acts 17:17–33). So is the Bible only about Darnell in the broadest generalities of “human nature”? Does the Bible only give sweeping “control beliefs” that never touch down into the grit, sweat, and chaos of Darnell’s life? How do God’s point of view and purposes enter the concrete particulars of Darnell’s life? Understood and used rightly, the Bible speaks directly into the details of Darnell and his world. God