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
Continue readingThirty-eight years is a long time to take getting somewhere (Deut. 2:14). You could just ask anyone in the unfaithful generation of people whom God brought to the edge of the Promised Land the first time under Moses—if they were still alive, that is (Num. 14:22-23, 32-35). But there are
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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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