You open your Bible with good intentions, then five minutes later you’re staring at a genealogy that reads like a phone book, wondering how Hezekiah connects to anything you’ve ever heard in church.
The unintended consequences of concordances offers a warning to Christians today. I open my Bible to 1 Peter 2:8: “A stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall.” By “open,” I ...
Readings: Nehemiah 8:2-4a, 5-6, 8-10 1 Corinthians 12:12-30 Luke 1:1-4; 4:14-21 I cannot say that I dislike or disapprove of the saying. I use it myself. But I still stiffen when someone says, ...
Have you ever been a part of a group of people who are about to pray together when someone says, “You know what the Bible says … ‘Whenever two or more are gathered in His name’ God will be there,” to ...
The mysterious masked man had not fallen to his death, once again defying Vizzini’s expectations. This was the fourth time he had proclaimed the man in black’s actions were "inconceivable." Inigo’s ...
An elderly lady went to see Shakespeare's Hamlet on stage for the first time in her life. Asked afterwards how she enjoyed the play, she replied: “I thought it was very good, but I was surprised that ...
A devout evangelical Christian friend of mine recently texted to explain why he was not getting the COVID-19 vaccine. “Jesus went around healing lepers and touched them without fear of getting leprosy ...
A devout evangelical Christian friend of mine recently texted to explain why he was not getting the COVID-19 vaccine. “Jesus went around healing lepers and touched them without fear of getting leprosy ...
Jim Slitor's May 30 letter, “Old Testament not guide for behavior,” took Scripture out of context. The Bible is God's love letter to humanity. The Old Testament shows us the law that God's holiness ...