I will admit that I used to be pretty perplexed by God’s use of Jacob in the Old Testament. Why did Jacob (his name literally means “trickster”) get to become “Israel”? It seems wrong. He was not a likable character and is held up as an example of what kind
Continue readingAs I look into the New Testament Book of James with a couple of friends these days in preparation for a class at church, I am struck by the cohesiveness of the letter. It has been said that James is a kind of “Proverbs of the New Testament,” because of
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All of the Gospels have a story about a fig tree. Not just parables, actually. There are those, too, when Jesus uses illustrations having to do with fig trees. But there are accounts of actual events having to do with fig trees in all four Gospels. Matthew has given the
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A Closer Look at Noah’s Post-Flood Humiliation In Genesis 9:20-27
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Can we learn to communicate from an outside intelligence?
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What to do with Job’s Final “Friend,” Elihu Elihu is a strange character, at least in the sense of how and where he appears in the book of Job. Why does he not appear with the other three “friends?” Does his argument differ from any of the first three who
Continue readingDetails of Jesus in Exodus 1:22-2:25 Although there are a great many Christ-types in the Old Testament, it is hard to overplay the obviousness of some that seem to necessarily rise to the top before others. One of these is Isaac, with his near sacrifice by his own father after
Continue readingWe have a wonderful small group who we “do life” with and, through the years, we have had people move away or just have seasons of life that make it impossible to get to our Bible Study every week. We have been asked repeatedly to record our group discussions, but
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